Maximum execution 30secs exceeded

bike5

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/virtual/blablabla/stats.php on line 477

Um, is there anyway to increase the time allowed? The problem is I have a huge for() loop that requires thousands of lines from other scripts each time its looped and it can be looped a few hundred times to 1 times depending on many varables. I don't know what to do.

Any help would be great, thanks.

Dan

shastry

Hi,
Look at your php.ini file & find the contents such as..

max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds

Change..
max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
With

max_execution_time = 100 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds.
Hope this would be helpful..
--Shastry

Anon

This can also be set on a script-by-script basis with the set_time_limit() function. It's often a good idea to have this as the first statement of a potentially long loop to repeatedly reset the timeout long enough to give each individual iteration enough time to complete; certainly better than trying to come up with a one-size-fits-all duration.

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"certainly better than trying to come up with a one-size-fits-all duration."

VERY DANGEROUS!

The time-limit is a safety measure, to make sure scripts don't continue on for ever and ever, eventually crashing your server. If you continually reset the limit in a loop, the entire function of the timelimit is gone and you might aswell set the limit to zero (infinite).

If a script takes longer, set a longer timout at the beginning, but never change it once the script starts doing it's thing.

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shastry

Thanx vincent for the valuable suggestion..
--Shastry

Anon

Assuming the loop is infinite or extremely long or very hungry.

In any of those situations, or if you can't prove it's otherwise, a different approach should be considered anyway.

And setting the timeout to zero isn't equivalent, once the loop finishes.

bike5

When I use the set_time_limit(). I get an error saying it cannot be run in safemode, but Im not in safe mode?

Is there a page that shows how long different functions take and whats the faster way to do things inplace of the same things, just with a different code or so. I would rather make the code execute faster than allow long time.

Thanks for the replies.