[RESOLVED] executing a php file inside another php file?

Zpixel

i have two php files called file1.php & file2.php. i want to call file2 when file1 has finished executing.

via html instruction i can easily write:
echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;url=file2.php?id=10>";

header("location:http://www.exm.com/file2.php?id=10");

is ther any way to do so only using php instructions?
i have uploaded my files to a webhosting space. file1.php findes10 records of new books using a soap request from another database in another hosting space. but ther are many books to be find and if file1 execution time exceeds 30 second there is an error announced.
using html link i have to sit beside my computer for houers till file1 finds all new books.

is there any way that a php file call & run another php file inside a hosting space by just a trigger from user?

Corvin

include(), require()
include_once(), require_once()

Zpixel

this code is end of file1.php :

if ($searchlimit>$search_limit_end) {
mysql_query("UPDATE books SET bookid='$numofbooksInDb' WHERE bookname='bookidstorage'");
mysql_close($con);
$search_limit_end+=10;
echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;url=file1.php?id=" . $search_limit_end . "&letter=" . $letter . "'>";
exit;
}

do you mean:

if ($searchlimit>$search_limit_end) {
mysql_query("UPDATE books SET bookid='$numofbooksInDb' WHERE bookname='bookidstorage'");
mysql_close($con);
$search_limit_end+=10;
$file='file1.php?id=' . $search_limit_end . '&letter=' . $letter;
require($file);
exit;
}

in fact file1.php must call itself again. ignore file2.php

laserlight

It sounds like you want to use a loop instead.

Zpixel

file1.php searches 10 keywords through another db.
file1.php updates my db and close db connection.
file1.php exites the process but before that:
file1.php must calls itself now with new id, ie next 10 keywords to be searched.

yes,it needs a loop, but not in a single file, to prevent error : maximum execution time 30 sec from server.
i must call file1.php many times, 100 times for 1500 keywords.
i had put them all in a loop in a single file but execution time is long.

how can i revise the code in the prev post.

dagon

set_time_limit(0);

laserlight

yes,it needs a loop, but not in a single file, to prevent error : maximum execution time 30 sec from server.

The appropriate way to avoid that is to use [man]set_time_limit/man.

Zpixel

when i called file1.php by dbsearch.htm at home, can i then close my browser and disconnect dialup connection and hope that the script will search all keywords.
no interaction is between dbsearch.htm & file1.php
(suppose there is no error in the script)

Weedpacket

[man]ignore_user_abort[/man] could help, here, I think. Something to ask yourself: since HTTP is stateless, how would the server know that the client has disconnected?

Zpixel

thank you boys & girls.