Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] cURL problem

[Wilfried S. <ws...@de...>]

I'm sure if the script is still in dev, he's going to want to see the  
results/debug output of it.. be it browser or CLI (though I do agree..  
getting it out of the browser would serve you much better, Neil)

On Aug 26, 2008, at 08:53 , Jason Rexilius wrote:

> You really should fork-exec that long running process and then poll a
> results page or something, rather than upping max_execution_time.
>
> If there is a good reason for this process to run longer than a couple
> seconds, then I would get it out of the way of browser interaction.
>
>
>
> Neil Rest wrote:
>> Yes.
>>
>> But this is my own script running on my own machine, while I watch  
>> it.  Or at least watch it until I'm sure it's running right.
>> I'm scraping some directories, so there's nested lookups &c., and  
>> some of them really are taking 5 or 10 minutes or more on my cheesy  
>> little machine and cheesy little "fast" internet connection.
>>
>> Nervous Nellie that I am, my script now starts
>>
>> echo 'original max_execution_time = ' .  
>> ini_get('max_execution_time') . "<br />\n";
>> ini_set('max_execution_time', 1200);
>> echo 'reset max_execution_time = ' .  
>> ini_get('max_execution_time') . "<br />\n<br />\n";
>>
>>
>> At 07:43 PM 8/25/2008, "Jough Dempsey" <jou...@gm...>  
>> wrote:
>>> Not that the previous answers won't work, but I'm wondering if just
>>> taking off the safeties that are in place to stop things like  
>>> scripts
>>> that take a minute or two is really the Right Answer.
>>>
>>> A minute in PHP execution is a LONG time.  Is what the script is  
>>> doing
>>> really that intensive, or are you just executing the same operations
>>> many times (e.g. if you were writing a spider that would request
>>> thousands of web pages)?  Even then, you should be careful that your
>>> script isn't doing Bad Things or capitalizing things  
>>> Inappropriately.
>>>
>>> Regardless, I'd suggest setting max_execution_time to a higher  
>>> value,
>>> but not "0" which means your script just runs and runs and runs.
>>>
>>
>> Neil
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