How to run php script

Question

I have 7-8 php scripts written which pulls data from remote server and store it into our server. Each script insert/update around 3000-4000 records at a time. When I hit any script from browser it works fine(individual script) but if I try to call all files together by writing header('Location: http://www.example.com/') it gets break. Can anyone suggest me a better way to work with this. Someone suggested me use multi-threading I have not used threading yet so can anyone help me with the better approach/solution. TIA.

Answer 1

Note: your current code doesn't work because header('Location: example.com') redirects the browser to example.com which means your php script finished running and the browser is now on example.com

Solution 1: if allow_url_fopen is "On" in php.ini you can execute them as using:

<?php 
   $url1 = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/1.php');
   $url2 = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/2.php');
?>

and so on...

Solution 2:

   function initCURL($url) {
          $curl = curl_init();
          curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
          curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
          curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
          $data = curl_exec($curl);
          curl_close($curl);
          return $data;
   }

use it as follows:

<?php
   $url1 = initCURL('http://www.example.com/1.php');
   $url2 = initCURL('http://www.example.com/2.php');
?>

in these examples $url1 and $url2 will carry whatever data is returned by the scripts.