[RESOLVED] Timing Out

jollyollie

I am running a real estate website that requires a daily download of some very large image files from a central server. I set up a cron job to run a script to download the files, but have further questions.

I originally had an unzip command in the script and some further file manipulations:

 $output = `unzip /home/yyyyy/public_html/yyyyy/filename.zip -d /home/yyyyy/public_html/yyyyy/thedirectory/`; 

echo $output;

My issue is that the script times out after 5 minutes. It begins the download and then after 5 minutes, it sends the report to the email address on my cron account. Additionally, it does not run any of the commands after the download command. I have watched my site by ftp while the cron is running and I can see the file size inflating for a while after the 5 minutes, so I know that it is still downloading. I have had to move the unzip and other commands into a separate file and run a second cron for them. Some of the files are smaller and can be done in under 5 minutes. Those handle the unzip and other commands perfectly.

All that being said, my question is: is there a way to adjust the run time of a script so that all my commands can be in 1 script?

Hope this is not too confusing.

NogDog

[man]set_time_limit/man

jollyollie

Thanks for the information. I should have clarified that I had already set that in my script, set it to 7200, trying to allow maximum time. It still stops after 5 minutes. Is it something outside of PHP perhaps?

rowanparker

Apache might have a running time of scripts.
Only a guess.

sneakyimp

your server might also be in safe mode.

stndrdsnz

I'm not sure if this will help you or not, but it may get around what you're having problems with. If you can perform this process on the command line, setup a shell script. You can then generate a name for a temp file, and have your shell script generate the temp file when it's finished. If you continue to refresh your page each time looking for the temp file. You should be able to avoid your timeout. However, as this bypasses the timeout, you might want to create your own timeout logic.

I've added some code to try and show you below, but being it's almost 4am I won't certify it's accuracy, but it should give you a general idea of what I'm talking about.

Thanks,

David


if(!$_GET['PHP_Refresh']){

 $tempfile = 'tempfile.txt';

 $command = 'Do Stuff'; // Assign your commands here
 $output = array();
 $status = false;

 $tempfile = 'tempfile.txt';
 exec($command, $output, $status);

} else {

 sleep(240); // wait four minutes...

 if(file_exists($_GET['PHP_TempFile'])){
      //Your Process is Done
      exit();

 }
}

header("Location: ".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?PHP_Refresh=TRUE&PHP_TempFile=".$tempfile);
die();