I'm running a sh script that runs a java process through php on ubuntu server. I'm using proc_open for running the process. usually the Workflow goes like :
In my case the script runs in parallel so the server won't wait until the script is finished (it takes hours sometimes so it can't) , so I need to save that resource somehow to follow it later (status of the process or just stopping it).
The resource type is "process", I used this function get_resource_type for getting it.
Serialize won't work at this case - resource is an exceptional for it (you can look at http://il2.php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php inside the Parameters box).
My target is a good process handling. does someone know how can i use the resource or other way you would do for process handling.
You can't store resource types for later use in PHP. What you need to do is implement some form of asynchronous communication - maybe a file, where one writes status information and the other one reads, a shared memory, a named pipe, ...
I would look into the pcntl extension. Hint: Forking is not possible from within a web-server environment for security reasons.