PHP question. Does PHP timeout?

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hellonearthisman

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#14844 23-Jul-2007 16:25

I am writing a php script and it looks like it's timing out as it just stops if I do too much looping
or processing.

If I only process a few forum, it;s ok, if my list of forums to process is 14 it does.

I wonder if php has a setting that stops my script running to long.

nairda

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#79306 23-Jul-2007 16:55

Maybe this would help you:

Set time limit

barf

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#79311 23-Jul-2007 17:08

theres a maximum memory setting in php.ini I've had to increase from default for some webmail clients when a person's inbox is over a few GB. maybe check that too.

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hellonearthisman

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#79312 23-Jul-2007 17:28

Thanks you two for the help. Doing a set_time_limit (0); totally fix my last set of problems.

I've constructed an rss feed builder for a forum that has no rss. http://forums.slingshot.co.nz
It's very beta as I have not learned how to run the script via a task scheduler yeah and doing it manual.

If you would like to see the beta feeds for then look at http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~takeme.brett/

Thanks Barf, I think you also gave me good advice the other day in the chartroom.

barf

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#79313 23-Jul-2007 17:38

no problem mate

I've scheduled tasks before using cron and wget, this is how drupal runs it's maintenance tasks too.
and example crontab to hit http://user:pass@example.com/periodic_task.php every 5 minutes would look like:

*/5 * * * * wget -O - -q http://user:pass@example.com/periodic_task.php

from a shell account 'crontab -e' edits the crontab file. however I'm not a PHP guru or even a PHP developer so there may be a better way to do this. windows task scheduler maybe?

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hellonearthisman

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#79491 24-Jul-2007 20:41

Sounds like you have a linux platform. I have XP.windows, not a good platform for php developement. Anway,
I'm going to use a taskmanager and run the php from like a dos shell.

php.exe -f "D:\www local\htdocs\slingshot forum 2 rss\Slingshot RSS Builder.php"

You mentioned drupal, is that Drupal and is google code using an example of it.

hellonearthisman

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#80128 28-Jul-2007 16:43

found a windows version of cron called nnCron LITE

I call my script like this, every 55mins

*/55 * * * * cmd /c c:\wamp\php\php.exe -f "D:\www local\htdocs\slingshot forum 2 rss\Slingshot RSS Builder.php"

Seems to be working but only getting a correct feed from using FeedReader.

Thanks for the help.