shell_exec does not run in the background, any other solution?

i'm using php in apache on CentOS. i'm need to serve users, that they can delete big files by click. trying to use shell_exec. but its not run in the background. it runs and make the user wait.

my command :

$D_command="rm -rf videos/'$Mdelete'";

shell_开发者_运维知识库exec($D_command);

thanks!

ass & at the end of the command.

$D_command="nohup rm -rf videos/'$Mdelete' > /log/deletedfile.log 2>&1 &";

$PID = shell_exec("nohup $Command 2> /dev/null & echo $!");

http://php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php

Try running

rm -rf videos/'$Mdelete' &

using exec. The ampersand indicates to run to the background

Try this:

popen($D_command, 'r')

I know this is quite an old question, but I had the same issue, and this was the only working solution after trying and failing with exec,shell_exec, process_open:

$process = popen("nohup $D_command > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & echo $!", 'r');
$pid = fread($process, 32);