How not to block a PHP script by calling a Bash script from it?

Question

PHP

There is a PHP script that runs from cron once a minute, and sometimes, by condition, a bash script is called from it, which performs the operation for 5 minutes and blocks the main PHP script for all this time. I would like to somehow avoid such blocking. Tell me, what options are possible here?

Answer 1

exec("nohup php script.php > script.log &");