running long running script in shared hosting

[csplrj]

I have a long running script which may go on for long time may be 4 to 5 hours?

How to get running the same in a shared hosting environment?

 

As I tried the same but it seems it does not works in a shared hosting environment?

 

I tried

set_time_limit(0);

ignore_user_abort();

 

but it does not seems to works

 

Thanks in advance

 

CSJakharia

[Mark Baker]

Anything that takes longer than a few seconds (at most, a couple of minutes) to run should not be executed from a web page.

Instead, you should run it as a cron job

[bundyxc]

If your host doesn't support cron, try something like this:

<?php
session_start();
$timer = 5;
$refresh = $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] + $timer;


while (1) {
if (time() >= $refresh) {
	die('<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0">');
} else {
	//Execute code
}
}
?>

 

 

Here's an example of something that you could do:

<?php
session_start();
$timer = 5;
$refresh = $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] + $timer;

if (!isset($_SESSION['i'])) {
$_SESSION['i'] = 0;
}

while (1) {
if (time() >= $refresh) {
	die('<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0">' . $_SESSION['i']);
} else {
	$_SESSION['i']++;
}
}
?>

 

Code above counts, saves as a session variable, refreshes every five seconds, and starts where it left off. What exactly are you trying to do?

[csplrj]

It parses the html content of a website and gets the data from the html which is required to me

[bundyxc]

If you show me the code that you plan on using for the 4/5 hours, I'll implement it into my idea.