Echo Message to User on Timeout

[rkdiekhoff]

Hi,

I'm using the set_time_limit() function - set to 60 seconds - for a script that reads and parses a tab delimited file.

How do I display a friendly message back to the user once the 60 seconds has been exceeded?

Or before that how do I detect when the timeout conditions have been met?

Thanks,

RKD

[Horizon88]

As far as I know, set_time_limit() is designed to pretty much kill the script, and really just lets you reset the time_limit option from the php.ini file. I don't know if you can continue running the script after that execution is hit, it's rather like a hard limit.

What you could do rather than use set_time_limit() is a while() loop that checks a time variable and when it hits 60 seconds, break out and display a message.

[lazzerous]

<?php
$script_time_start = microtime(true); // assuming PHP5

while (whatever){
if ((microtime(true) - $script_time_start) > 60){
die('Your allotted time has expired. This script is stopping now.');
}

// continue processing your while loop

}