Run (remote) php script from (local) python script

Question

How do I make python (local) run php script on a remote server?

I don't want to process its output with python script or anything, just execute it and meanwhile quit python (while php script will be already working and doing its job).

edit: What I'm trying to achieve:

• python script connects to ftp server and uploads php script (I already have this part of code)
• it runs php script (that's part of code i'm asking about)
• python script continues to do something else
• python script quits (but probably php script still didn't finished its work so i don't want it to end when it'll exit python)
• python script quit, php script still continues its task

(I don't plan to do anything with php output in python - python just has to upload php script and make it start working)

Hope I'm more clear now. Sorry if my question wasn't specific enough.

another edit: Also please note that I don't have shell access on remote server. I have only ftp and control panel (cpanel); trying to use ftp for it.

Answer 1

os.system("php yourscript.php")

Another alternative would be:

# will return new process' id
os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, "php yourscript.php")

You can check all os module documentation here.

Answer 2

I'll paraphrase the answer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1060436/how-do-i-include-a-php-script-in-python.

import subprocess

def php(script_path):
    p = subprocess.Popen(['php', script_path] )

Answer 3

If python is on a different physical machine than the PHP script, I'd make sure the PHP script is web-accessible and use urllib2 to call to that url

import urllib2

urllib2.urlopen("http://remotehost.com/myscript.php")