Thanks for your reply Paul.
The script is getting subscriber details from a database and then
firing our personalised emails in HTML and text format. The while
statement loops through the query results and fires out the emails
using the mail() command.
It works well so far and indeed does finish the loop OK - but as
mentioned the script is still running 13 hours later. I don't get it.
Any ideas? Is it possible to kill a script via PHP code?
Matthew
PS Here is the script again
<?
ignore_user_abort(true);
set_time_limit(1800);
while:
personalise the message;
mail();
set_time_limit(1800);
endwhile;
?>
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:08 AM
To: Matthew Delmarter
Cc: PHP Mailing List
Subject: Re: [PHP] set_time_limit() in a loop
what are you doing a while on
if while never ends and you reset the time out each loop and use
ignore_user_abort(true), it will still be going 13 hours latter.
maybe if you send the full code so we can look at it.
Paul Roberts
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Delmarter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Martin Towell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "PHP Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:55 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP] set_time_limit() in a loop
> I should also mention that the loop is sending mail using mail().
>
> Is it possible that this is the problem somehow?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Towell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:16 PM
> To: 'Matthew Delmarter'; PHP Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [PHP] set_time_limit() in a loop
>
> your first thought was correct - it sets it to 1800, it's NOT
> accumulative.
>
> it would have something to do with ignore_user_abort(true); and
also
> is your while loop's exit check working?
>
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Just wondering about set_time_limit() in a loop.
>
> The current code looks something like this:
>
> <?
> ignore_user_abort(true);
> set_time_limit(1800);
> while:
> do stuff;
> set_time_limit(1800);
> endwhile;
> ?>
>
> Does this reset the timeout to 1800 seconds every time it loops? Or
> does it accumulate so that the timeout has 1800 seconds added to it
> every time?
>
> The reason I ask is that my ISP informs me that the script is still
> running 13 hours later! Or is this related to the ignore_user_abort?
>
> Regards,
> Matthew Delmarter
>
>
>
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