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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 6233

Is there a way to output something every 5 minutes during another process in PHP?

I have a cronjob which imports a huge file and then processes it. The import process takes a lot of time however after 600 seconds the server I am running the script on aborts the cronjob (timeout). After talking to a server technician he told me I needed to output something during the process of importing in order for the script to not abort after 10 minutes.

My question now is: let's say we have a function import() which imports the file (this function takes approximately 20 minutes to run). Is there any way to simultaneously echo an output every for example 5 minutes? Or is this not possible due to the fact that PHP code is always processed in sequence?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 104

Answers (1)

L00_Cyph3r
L00_Cyph3r

Reputation: 669

If it is an iterative process you could set a variable $last_echo with the value of time(). Then on each iteration check if time() - $last_echo > 300.

Example:

$last_echo = time();
while (true) {
  //Do process
  if (time() - $last_echo > 300) {
    echo '.';
  }
}

Upvotes: 1

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