I'm importing Real Estate properties every 30 minutes into my website. I have a controller action that triggers this but the import is extremely slow and blocks the entire site.
Right now I'm triggering the imports with this code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Where the url is the cron url of the feed.
FeedMe shows you what the import trigger endpoint that you can use with curl in the feed configuration.
One potential way is to trigger curl from your plugin with exec:
// Set the feed me URL
$url = 'http://your.domain/actions/feed-me/feeds/run-task?direct=1&feedId=1&passkey=FwafY5kg3c'
// Build the curl command with the url
$cmd = 'curl --silent --compressed "'.$url.'"';
// Execute the command in the background
exec($cmd . " > /dev/null &");
That should then run the task using another process.
You will likely need to enable exec() function on your environment.
Even better if you use a daemon to process your queue with a nice command (if not have a look here) it will run as a low priority task and slow your front-end down less.
