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This is the best method I've found for single asynchronous cURL's in PHP (great for calling external API's once your own has finished handling the request).
function acURL($url, $fields = array(), $method = 'POST')
{
# Set method
$cmd = "curl -X ".$method;
# Build fields
foreach ($fields as $key => $value) {
$cmd .= " -F '".$key."'='".$value."'";
}
# Finally append resource URL
$cmd .= " '".$url."'";
# Ouput stdout/err to nonexistent directory
$cmd .= " > /dev/null 2>&1 &";
# Execute
exec($cmd, $output, $exit);
// print_r($output); # Uncomment for debugging
# Return
return $exit == 0;
}
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