Posted by Rik Wasmus on 01/07/08 12:24

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:09:58 +0100, Paul Fisch <fischp@gmail.com> wrote:

> This might not be the correct place for this question, if not if
> someone could point me in the right direction that would be good.
>
> Ok, let's say you have an html document that calls a php script. Now
> the php script doesn't even necessarily have to output any information
> to the client, but lets just say that all it does is some very complex
> sql stuff involving large tables that takes as long as 10 minutes to
> execute. The script includes set_time_limit(1500). Now if someone
> views the html page for 10-15 seconds and then closes the page will
> the php script continue and execute until completion even though the
> client has long since closed the page?

That's configurable, look at
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/features.connection-handling.php and
ignore_user_abort().
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Rik Wasmus

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