php equivalent to asp's xmlhttp

Hi

In asp I used to call scripts in an asynchronous way by creating xmlhttp object and calling an external script with some variables like this:

set xmlHttp = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlHttp.open "POST", "http://www.test.com/test.asp?keyword=" &Keyword & "&offset=" & Offset & "&links=" & Links, false
xmlHttp.send

Code (markup):

(the false means that this is an asnyc. call and the script doesn't wait for a response)

I'm looking to do the same with PHP

Its important that the script will be executed but would not affect the runtime of the originating script since it's dependent on other server to execute sometimes a heavy procedure or sometimes script b's server might be non responsive at all, the user should not be affected but still script a should trigger this call (to script b) not a cron job or any other automation of that sort, also not a javascript, I don't want to expose script b's location to the client side.

hope I was coherent, its my first post here and english is not my native language.

Thanks!

 

XMLHttpRequest is DOM Object. Web Browser handle this not PHP or ASP. You can use same object in PHP.

 

thanks for replying

looking at my code again, the object is called msxml and it is an object I used with ASP

(Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP"))

to send offline/async xmlhttp requests from an asp script.

if we ignore the msxml/xmlhttp thing, is there anything in php that can give me that feature i'm looking for?