system() on taking time command

[mouloud2001]

I try to use system to do a webalizer command. When i try to do reverse dns, webalizer take a few time. If i do my command on the command line, it function, but if it's php which do it, with the system() function (or passthru), it seems to don't wait, and the reverse dns are not make, like if php has stopped the command before it could end it...

Any idea (if you have understand my bad english) ?

[chaostik]

This is because, unless you have modified php.ini, the default maximum execution time for any PHP script is 30 seconds (so I am guessing that webalizer takes longer than that and is therefore killed by PHP before it finishes). There are two ways of dealing with this:

• By using set_time_limit from within your script;

• by editing php.ini and modifying the max_execution_time configuration directive.

Louis