title: PHP Daemon in PHP 5.3
body: <p>While the idea of a PHP daemon has been covered to death on here, I haven't found anything specifically related to how to do this in PHP 5.3. As I've been told, 5.3 introduced new garbage collection/memory management to allow PHP to more cleanly run as a daemon.</p>
  
  <p>I know PHP's no one's first choice for this kind of thing, but in my circumstances it might have to do.</p>
  
  <p>I know in PHP 4, you would have to use something like the <a href="http://pear.php.net/package/System_Daemon" rel="nofollow">System_Daemon</a> class, but I was wondering if that was still needed with the new version of PHP, and wether I'd need to do anything special to use the new features.</p>