Symfony2 and Background processes

Question

I have a class in my Symfony 2.3 project that is doing some http requests and takes some time.

I would like to run this task as a background process, so that the server returns an answer to the client and the background process continues running.

Do you know how to do that in Symfony?

I found the Process Component: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/process.html but I am not sure if I can run a class method from there.

Answer 1

A simple way to do this is to separate the heavy lifting from the response by using a queue and a symfony command to process the queue.

http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console/introduction.html

Create a symfony command that processes the jobs added to a queue, then add the work to be done to the queue from your controller. The queue will probably be implemented as a database table of jobs.

That way you can return a success response to the user and run a cron job on the server regularly to process the work you require.