How can i make a php program run like a service in the server?

[kvijayhari]

hi

I'm going to write a program that should be running all the time (24/7) in my server say like a service..

Whenever my server is running this program should be running and whenever i start/restart my machine the program should automatically start and run.

The program will be in php. How can i make this to run like a service?

So how can do this ?

[Stang02GT]

Moving to PHP forum in hopes they will be able to guide you better

[coolsti]

What do you mean by "running all the time"? That is going to chew up a lot of your CPU if you have a PHP script always doing something.

It sounds to me like you wish a PHP script to run repeatedly, say for example every minute or every 5 minutes or every 10 minutes, or once each hour or something like that. Is that what you want? If so, you can configure your PHP script to run in a standalone fashion (without a web server, or the PHP-CLI mode) and then set up a batch program to run your script at the regular intervals you desire. If you are working on a Linux machine, you would do this by setting up a cron job. Not sure what you do if you are using Windows.

[kvijayhari]

i'm going to use linux and i want that program to run all the like a service...

I'm sure about that, this program should be running all the time,this program has very important monitoring and queuing stuff. so it need to be running..

I thought of cron, but for example if the crontab itself fails, who will initiate that program.

Actually i want that program to be running like a service whenever the server is running... it can be very nice if is automatically started when the server is started/restarted.

Hoping for a solution

[dlite922]

curious,

what does the program do? does it listen on a port? does it check a file or db.table for something?




-Dan

[r035198x]

PHP is mainly used for web development (though not limited to). Is your program going to be a web application? Starting programs automatically when the computer boots is the easier part that. Let's first get some information on the nature of the program first.

[kvijayhari]

Yes, it an web application , gets data from the db and then process and it runs on my machine (server), the db gets updated thru my website..

[r035198x]

Yes, it an web application , gets data from the db and then process and it runs on my machine (server), the db gets updated thru my website..

So all you want is that the website should be available everytime the computer is switched on?

[kvijayhari]

So all you want is that the website should be available everytime the computer is switched on?

Exactly that is i want!!

[r035198x]

Exactly that is i want!!

If you are using Apache with your PHP then all you need to do make sure your Apache starts automatically. There are many ways of doing this depending on your distro as well. Just google for the various options and pick the one you prefer.

[kvijayhari]

If you are using Apache with your PHP then all you need to do make sure your Apache starts automatically. There are many ways of doing this depending on your distro as well. Just google for the various options and pick the one you prefer.

Thanks for your effort. But this is something different from i want..

I may not be clear in specifying what i want.

I have a website and it should run 24X7 (for this what you gave is a perfect solutions. Thanks.)

In the website , itself, i'm having a program may be an API, that has to be run indepedent of the status of the website. (i.e the specific program need not to use http connections and it has nothing to do on the client side.)

That specific API should be running on the server all the time (something like firewall..)

Can i write a program and make them running..?

I think it may be somewhat clear now.

Thanks again

[r035198x]

Then you create the PHP script as specified in post #3 and start it on machine boot using the same method that you would auto start Apache.

[kvijayhari]

Thanks guys.

I read that post but didn't analyzed more about that.

Thanks i'll move in that direction.

[olddocks]

Thanks guys.

I read that post but didn't analyzed more about that.

Thanks i'll move in that direction.

just place the script in CRON job.