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user614963
user614963

Reputation: 865

php timeout - set_time_limit(0); - don't work

I'm having a problem with my PHP file that takes more than 30 seconds to execute.

After searching, I added set_time_limit(0); at the start of the code,cbut the file still times out with a 500 error after 30 seconds.

log: PHP Fatal error:  Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /xxx/xx/xxx.php

safe-mode : off

Upvotes: 36

Views: 174381

Answers (6)

christian
christian

Reputation: 39

I think you must say limit time to execution to php , try this.

ini_set('max_execution_time', 0);

Upvotes: 1

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 1056

This is an old thread, but I thought I would post this link, as it helped me quite a bit on this issue. Essentially what it's saying is the server configuration can override the php config. From the article:

For example mod_fastcgi has an option called "-idle-timeout" which controls the idle time of the script. So if the script does not output anything to the fastcgi handler for that many seconds then fastcgi would terminate it. The setup is somewhat like this:

Apache <-> mod_fastcgi <-> php processes

The article has other examples and further explanation. Hope this helps somebody else.

Upvotes: 11

SteJ
SteJ

Reputation: 1531

I usually use set_time_limit(30) within the main loop (so each loop iteration is limited to 30 seconds rather than the whole script).

I do this in multiple database update scripts, which routinely take several minutes to complete but less than a second for each iteration - keeping the 30 second limit means the script won't get stuck in an infinite loop if I am stupid enough to create one.

I must admit that my choice of 30 seconds for the limit is somewhat arbitrary - my scripts could actually get away with 2 seconds instead, but I feel more comfortable with 30 seconds given the actual application - of course you could use whatever value you feel is suitable.

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 5

Vinayak Phal
Vinayak Phal

Reputation: 8919

Checkout this, This is from PHP MANUAL, This may help you.

If you're using PHP_CLI SAPI and getting error "Maximum execution time of N seconds exceeded" where N is an integer value, try to call set_time_limit(0) every M seconds or every iteration. For example:

<?php

require_once('db.php');

$stmt = $db->query($sql);

while ($row = $stmt->fetchRow()) {
    set_time_limit(0);
    // your code here
}

?>

Upvotes: 5

Anooj P
Anooj P

Reputation: 346

ini_set('max_execution_time', 300);

use this

Upvotes: 3

user1601782
user1601782

Reputation: 451

Check the php.ini 

ini_set('max_execution_time', 300); //300 seconds = 5 minutes

ini_set('max_execution_time', 0); //0=NOLIMIT

Upvotes: 44

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