Posted by Toby A Inkster on 01/23/08 22:34

flamer die.spam@hotmail.com wrote:

> The cron job is an option, but wouldnt executing a script in php via
> cron still not time itself out as a normal php script would??

IIRC, the command line version of PHP doesn't honour the
max_execution_time setting in php.ini. And even if it does, you can
override it easily using the "-d" option.

Plus with command line PHP you don't need to also concern yourself about
browser timeouts and the role of Apache in all this mess.

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