Force complete a page

[oceans]

I am sending email sets, say to about 10 persons on the same page, one after the other, and database processing is involved for each email. (Thus the processing time is long)

 

I encountered my page "dies (intermittently)" before completion of all 10 emails, probably due to preset life time for a page. (By the server)

 

Can any one advice how I can set the following @ (.htacess):

 

(1) When the page starts to work on a push of the submit button, it HAS to complete even if the user closes the page half way.

(2) Lengthen the lifetime for a page at the server.

 

Please advice if this 2 forced steps will hurt any functionally.

 

Thanks.

[genericnumber1]

1:

function: http://us2.php.net/ignore_user_abort

or

ini directive: (mentioned in) http://php.net/manual/en/features.connection-handling.php

 

2:

function: http://us3.php.net/set_time_limit

or

ini directive: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.max-execution-time

[l_kris06]

Question 1:

 

When a user hits on the submit button, the entire form will be posted to the server regardless of the browser being closed or left open.  whatever has been sent to the server side will be processed. So lets say the user pushed the submit button, and closed his browser, he just wont be seeing the success or failure or other communique in return, thats all.

 

 

Question 2:

 

By default, php script timeout is 30 secs, so if your process of

 

a)fetching the email address.

b)patching your message.

c)sending

 

doesnt fall under the 30sec mark, your script will timeout.

 

This is a simple thing to fix, you can increase the script timeout by using

set

set_time_limit(x);

where x = number of seconds.

I usually set x to 0. which means the page will never have a time limit to complete its execution.

 

Rgds,

Kris

 

 

[oceans]

Thanks mates,

 

I found the following when I did info.

ignore_user_abort Off 
max_execution_time 60 60 

 

are they relevent to my problem, if so please do me a statement so that I will insert it in my .htacess file.

I fear I may mass my .htacess file after which I have to ask for help from my provider

 

[oceans]

Can any one add...

[oceans]

Can any one add please

[genericnumber1]

Did you read my links? On the mailer application add these lines:

 

<?php
ignore_user_abort();
set_time_limit(0); // This will go forever, even if the script somehow gets in a permanent loop eating up resources, consider just setting it to a very large number
?>

 

edit: spelling

[DarkSuperHero]

why do you assume its not sending all 10 e-mail messages ? can you post some of your code ? genericnumber1 has a good solution for debugging...did you attempt it ?

[oceans]

Thanks,

 

Yes it works, but I thought of putting it along in my .htaccess file among other things. I did once put the same instruction in .htaccess file. I forgot the syntex.

 

<?php
ignore_user_abort();
set_time_limit(0); // This will go forever, even if the script somehow gets in a permanent loop eating up resources, consider just setting it to a very large number
?>

[genericnumber1]

Try...

 

php_flag ignore_user_abort on
php_value max_execution_time 0

 

That's what I'd try at first. If it didn't work I'd start googling.

[oceans]

I placed the following in the .htaccess

 

Options All -Indexes
php_flag ignore_user_abort on

 

Nope it is not working, further my pages fail to appear as well with an error.

 

[oceans]

Can any one add to this

[d.shankar]

Note the "true" within ignore_user_abort()

 

 

<?php
ignore_user_abort(TRUE);
set_time_limit(0);
?>

 

This will definitely work.

[oceans]

Thanks D.Shankar, its good!

[d.shankar]

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