On 2011-07-13, at 11:20 PM, Midhun Girish wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> - Browsers generally have a 5 minute time-out. If you send the PDF directly
> to the browser and reach the limit, it will be lost. It is therefore advised
> for very big documents to generate them in a file, and to send some data to
> the browser from time to time (with a call to flush() to force the output).
> When the document is finished, you can send a redirection to it or create a
> link.
> Remark: even if the browser times out, the script may continue to run on the
> server.
>
>
> When it comes to the user end, they wont wait for more than 1 min. So
> redirection after generating the report is not possible. But creating link
> may be a good idea. How can it be done? I mean shouldn't there be a service
> running in the server to process these request after the execution of the php
> script is completed? Also shouldn't we post all the report generation request
> to a database so that serial processing can be done?
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We're helping each other here, as I'm facing a similar situation! Read
up on how to store as a file here:
<http://www.sitepoint.com/generate-pdfs-php/>
You should then be able to generate an email notification to send once the file
is complete, with the link to the newly-created file.
George Langley
Multimedia Developer
