Fatal Error: Maximum Execution time

[conjurer]

I posted this in coding but maybe it would be better in Newbie because nobody is responding. :bemused:

I am newbie and was working through an example from Core PHP that tests connection status.

I got a page of lines of "X's" as would be expected until the maximum time setting is hit. Then I get the following messages at the end and I didn't get the final print command that the "Fake Task finished." I am wondering why the print command failed:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 3 seconds exceeded in /home/omgma/public_html/Fresh_start/test.php5 on line 75

Here is the code I ran:
PHP Code:

function cleanUp()
    {
        $status = connection_status();
        $statusMessage = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
        $statusMessage .= " Status was $status. ";

    if($status & CONNECTION_ABORTED)
    {
        $statusMessage .= "The script was aborted. ";
    }

    if($status & CONNECTION_TIMEOUT)
    {
        $statusMessage .= "The script timed out. ";
    }

    $statusMessage .= "\n";

    //write status to log file
    error_log($statusMessage, 3, "/tmp/status.log");
    return(TRUE);
}

//set cleanUp to the shutdown function
register_shutdown_function("cleanUp");
set_time_limit(3);

//wait out the max execution time
while(TRUE)
{
    for($i=1; $i < 80; $i++)
    {
        print('x');
    }
    print('<br>');
}

print("Fake task finished.\n");

So if the max execution time is set in the code to 3 seconds wont it always generate a fatal error when 3 seconds are up and thus fail to print the the fake task line?

What have I got mucked up in here? 😕

[NogDog]

Yes, you have an infinite while loop surrounding your foreach loop, so it will always abort with a fatal error once it times out.

[conjurer]

So I assume that means it then skips the print line because it was a fatal error?

So If I made it a finite loop that took less than 3 seconds then it should complete and print the final line - correct?

[ClarkF1]

yep..........

take out the while loop and you'll see it finish.