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Toni Perić
Toni Perić

Reputation: 512

Execution time in PHP

I have a few foreach loops and at the end of every I use

set_time_limit(30)

which restarts the counter back to zero.

Now the script runs for longer time (I fetch 5000-10000 articles using an API and store them in DB), but after a while (when it processes already lots of data) I get the "Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded".

Could it be because of lack of memory? How could I tackle this problem?

The script is fetching articles using an API, and a foreach loop is used basically like this

foreach($articles as $article)
{
//do stuff with single article using $article

set_time_limit(30);
}

and I do not expect it that it needs more than 30 seconds to fetch and process a single article, but apparently after the script is run for some time, it hits that limit. What am I doing wrong? I don't want to allow the script to do a 5-secs job longer than a maximum of 30 seconds by using set_time_limit(9000) or something like that, which will probably get the job done but I suppose this is not a good way to solve the issue?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1122

Answers (3)

Anand Solanki
Anand Solanki

Reputation: 3425

Try this:

PHP has a function set_time_limit which sets the time limit of execution.
It has one argument set in seconds.
If you use like this,
set_time_limit(0)
then it will set unlimited time of execution.

Write this code in top.

You can refer more from here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

  • Thanks

Upvotes: 0

StackSlave
StackSlave

Reputation: 10627

If, for some crazy reason you feel that you must impose a time limit, consider the following:

set_time_limit(0);
$n = 0; $inc = 1;
foreach($article as $v){
  // do stuff with $v - Less characters is faster
  $n+=$inc;
}
set_time_limit($n);

Change $inc to suit your needs.

Upvotes: 1

Evgeny Chernyavskiy
Evgeny Chernyavskiy

Reputation: 2634

Why don't you just make

set_time_limit(0);

the first line of your script?

Upvotes: 3

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