Call a script from within a script?

[kipp]

Looking to make multiple calls to a script from within a loop....so ie, 

 

loop starts....

    calls a separate php script (preferably via url location)

loop continues (calling the same script above, but passes a variable to the script, essentially a count down variable)

loop will stop once a set number of calls has been made

 

Reason for this is I am trying to take a cron job script that keeps timing out and break it down into x number of calls to a similar script that will break down the time it takes for the script to run.

 

Any helps/assistance is appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

[benanamen]

What have you tried?

[Jacques1]

This hack is entirely unnecessary. If your script times out, then increase the time limit until it no longer times out:

<?php

// set the time limit in seconds (may also be -1 for no time limit at all)
set_time_limit(600);



// now do the work

There may also be a chance to optimize the procedure and solve the problem altogether. For example, if the timeout is caused by long-running queries, this may be due to missing/inappropriate indexes.

[ginerjm]

Why call a script via url? Doesn't that add time to the process? Why not simply create a function that does what you want and call that from the main script inside your loop?

[Jacques1]

How would that solve any problem? A function call in the same process doesn't make the process shorter in any way. kipps' idea is to solve the timeout problem by splitting the long-running process into multiple independent short-lived processes.

 

But as I already said in #3, timeout problems are solved by either optimizing the procedure (if possible) or increasing the time limit. There's no need for any hacks.