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Background Tasks
When you need to execute long running tasks triggered by a user action but disconnected from the originating request you can use the background tasks scaffold.
This is achieved using one of two techniques:
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By invoking the task using a CLI wrapper that disconnects completely from any originating caller using the pnctl PHP library
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By invoking the task from a leaf UI using a special server event and JSON streaming.
Aside from "backgrounding" support this module provides a nice pattern for any data processing
task through the Task
class and it's callback approach to reporting progress.
Note that the CLI method does not work on Windows - only on OSes supporting the pnctl PHP library.