Is it possible to close a PHP connection early after content has been echoed? Answers to similar questions on SO require buffering output before echoing. By the time my script is run, content has already been output.
My script does a bunch of analytics stuff using the current page request and session data, so I'd rather not compicate things by running a second process.
I've tried using fastcgi_finish_request, but I think my shared host has settings which terminate the script after calling the function. The following produces no log file. However when I comment out fastcgi_finish_request, it works as expected.
echo "Hello World";
ignore_user_abort(true);
set_time_limit(30);
fastcgi_finish_request();
file_put_contents('log.txt', time());