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Thank's for the help. I have  already extended the time limit. When it fails you get a message that is pretty self describing. I'll check out the extension though. Many thanks

I have a 82meg XML file that I want to process into an mySQL database so that I can use SQL to analyse it. I have some php using "simplexml" to load the file and parse out the data into an "INSERT" statement. The XML file is fine as I have some VB that processes it and that works fine. I know that I should end up with just over 87,000 records in the database, each with 34 fields. When I run the script it stops after about 2000 "inserts" with no error. If I cut down the file to approx 12meg I end up with about 8,500 records in the database. One of my thoughts is that I have a memory problem but lack of any message means I can't be sure. Does anyone have any advice as to what "logging" I can turn on to see what might be causing the problem. Thanks in advance.

I have sorted the problem and it wasn't my ability to cut/paste in the original post :P, either Cheers Mark

Have been watching the forums for a while and they have helped me out quite a lot. But I can't see an answer to this. I have an XML file that I want to process into an mySQL database and think that using SIMPLEXML will be the way forward. To get things going I've picked up an example from a web site but it's not working as I expect, here's the code and XML [code]<?php include 'example.xml'; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr); echo $xml->movie[0]->plot; // "So this language. It's like..." ?> [/code] [code]<?xml version="1.0"?> <movies> <movie>   <title>PHP: Behind the Parser</title>   <characters>   <character>     <name>Ms. Coder</name>     <actor>Onlivia Actora</actor>   </character>   <character>     <name>Mr. Coder</name>     <actor>El Act&#211;r</actor>   </character>   </characters>   <plot>   So, this language. It's like, a programming language. Or is it a   scripting language? All is revealed in this thrilling horror spoof   of a documentary.   </plot>   <rating type="thumbs">7</rating>   <rating type="stars">5</rating> </movie> </movies>[/code] Instead of putting out "So, this language. It's like....." it displays [quote]Ms. Coder Onlivia Actora Mr. Coder El ActÓr So, this language. It's like, a programming language. Or is it a scripting language? All is revealed in this thrilling horror spoof of a documentary. 7 [/quote] I have PHP 5.1.6. Can anyone suggest why it's putting out more than just the plot tag? Thanks in advance Mark

It seems to me that the site is overwhelmed with adds and not enough content.