Php Hanging Problem.

[Allenport]

Ok So here is the deal; I have been banging my head on this problem for a few weeks now and to no avail.

One of my Co-Workers wrote a php script to help display some information that is sent back to us by the software we produce. Now the script reads files which are formatted like this:

[b]Filename:[/b] [e-mail]_sync.log.07202006-15.11

/BalloonHelpR3_demo/BalloonHelp.cpp|20060720-15.08.05|DF|RM
/BalloonHelpR3_demo/BalloonHelp.cpp|20060720-15.08.05|DF|RG
/BalloonHelpR3_demo/BalloonHelp.h|20060720-15.08.05|DF|RM
/BalloonHelpR3_demo/BalloonHelp.h|20060720-15.08.06|DF|RG
/BalloonHelpR3_demo/BalloonHelp.html|20060720-15.08.06|DF|RM
/BalloonHelpR3_demo/BalloonHelp.html|20060720-15.08.06|DF|RG
/BalloonHelpR3_demo/BalloonTest.cpp|20060720-15.08.06|DF|RM

Ignore the filenames they are just for example.

The problem is that sometimes these userlog files get fairly large (to process) and we have forund that anything over 4-5mb would cause the page to hang and timeout.
The person who wrote it Isolated where she thought the trouble area is and I have staired at it for a long time now and have not been able to solve this problem.

If anyone can help I would be more that happy to pay :rolleyes:

I will post the PHP we are using in the next post as it is fairly large however the problem area lies within the porcessing functions located at the bottom.

[Allenport]

The script is attached below in a txt document.

[halojoy]

hi
There are 2 php.ini values I had to change
to run a script that took long time:

max_execution_time 300
max_input_time 300

as you can see I have set to 300 sec = 5 minutes

You can use a .htaccess file in the script directory, to set

php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value max_input_time 300

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max_execution_time
can also be set using function http://php.net/ini_set

max_input_time
has to be set in php.ini / .htaccess

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.php

🙂

[Allenport]

Thanks I will look into this.

[Allenport]

Ok I messed around with all of these and it was still timing out so I think it may be a script error however my co worker suggested that she could write something in "C" if I could figure a way to return the results in PHP.

I looked into the system() command but was only able to return a 1 or a 0. Is there a way to run an exe and then return all of the output?

[kakki]

sure, try exec()

[Allenport]

Thanks I will mess with it.