Offline processing...

Hello all,

The web site that I am building takes various pieces of information
from the user via forms and generates a number of individual files
which are then stored on my server for the user to collect.

While this works on my test machines, it can sometimes take up to 15
seconds for the PHP code to complete and generate the files. While this
is happening, the browser appears hung.

I'm concerned that when the system goes live, these pauses may increase
and cause issues for my users.

How can I take this processing offline - so the user can click on to
other pages in the browser while the PHP code from the 'processing
page' is executing in the background?

Is this possible?

Is PHP able to handle multiple users creating files in this way well? I
realise that coding methods/techniques will affect things, but in
general how robust is PHP in this type of scenario?

Sam.

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