How to execute action with long running time in Yii2?

Question

Yii

There is a task with a potentially infinite execution time (that is, a long one). The task is simple - the user pressed the button, the task started. But the session is broken due to a timeout. Alternatively, you can send an Ajax request to the action, inside there will be a launch of the script through the interpreter (a kind of multithreading emulation). And everything would be fine, but I just need to load Yii objects (models) and work with them. And running wget in the console looks too crutch. What solutions do you recommend?

Answer 1

Short answer: queues.
Look for information about Yii + RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ/ZeroMQ
Or make your own implementation - save the task file to a special folder, and run a console command by cron that will process these task files. You can use a database instead of a folder.