Posted by Erwin Moller on 10/05/06 15:33

quamis@gmail.com wrote:

> Hy,
> i need to process every character in a file, so i open the file read
> in buffers of about 8192bytes and process each buffer, then i write
> the output to another file.
>
> the problem is that with large files(>8Mb) i get a script error(Fatal
> error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded ).
> i acess every character in the buffer with
> $chr=ord($bufferIn{$i}); (where $i=0...8192)
> seems like all he time the script consumes is in the for loop and the
> chr/ord functions.
>
> can i do something to speed things up?
> is there any other way of acessing a single characher except
> $bufferIn{$i} ?

Hi,

I am not sure if you can speed things up in your script, but why not simply
increase the max_execution time?

This can be done with
ini_set("max_execution_time",60);
for 60 seconds.

Have a look here for more options:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ini.php#ini.list

You might also hit the roof of your memory usage if you handle and process
very large file. In that case look at: memory_limit (defaults to 8MB)

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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