If you are creating an application that will be run in the terminal on a Linux machine and you don’t want it to run if its already running you can use the same code below to achieve this.
class pid {
protected $filename;
public $already_running = false;
function __construct($directory) {
$this->filename = $directory . '/' . basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '.pid';
if(is_writable($this->filename) || is_writable($directory)) {
if(file_exists($this->filename)) {
$pid = (int)trim(file_get_contents($this->filename));
if(posix_kill($pid, 0)) {
$this->already_running = true;
}
}
}
else {
die(error_notifications("Cannot write to pid file '$this->filename'. Program execution halted.\n"));
}
if(!$this->already_running) {
$pid = getmypid();
file_put_contents($this->filename, $pid);
}
}
public function __destruct() {
if(!$this->already_running && file_exists($this->filename) && is_writeable($this->filename)) {
unlink($this->filename);
}
}
}
$pid = new pid('/tmp');
if($pid->already_running) {
print error_notifications("Program is Currently running!\n");
Exit;
} else {
EXECUTE CODE
}
function error_notifications() {
Some code to email or log the error.
}