Error Maximum execution time exceeded

[Anon]

i got an error which looks like this

"Fatal Error : Maximum Execution time is exceeded "

what should i do ? if there are any settings in Apache module ?

please reply immediately.

[vfwood]

the maximum execution time is set in your php.ini and takes the form

max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds

if this is too constrictive then just up it...

hope this helps...

[[deleted]]

Increase it, but don't set it too very large values unless you absolutely have to.
This parameter was created to stop PHP scripts from going "out of control".

For example, if you accedently put:
$a=0;
while ($a<5)
{
#blabla
$a=4;
};

Then every time you run the script it would keep running forever, and eventually you'd have so many processes running that your server would crash.

[Anon]

If you don´t have access to the php.ini file
you can set the maximum execution time at run-time using the command

set_time_limit(n);

where n is the maximum time in seconds.