Matthew, There's some strange stuff going on here, and in the conversation.
For information about set_time_limit() please read http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php. Despite the sense of what is written below, the manual says "When called, set_time_limit() restarts the timeout counter from zero. In other words, if the timeout is the default 30 seconds, and 25 seconds into script execution a call such as set_time_limit(20) is made, the script will run for a total of 45 seconds before timing out." Accordingly, every loop of the script is asking for the time_limit to be imposed in 30 minutes' time. The foibles of mail() are well documented on this list - please check the archives. The most pertinent comment being that mail() does not suit volume transmissions, and bulk-mailer software should be used instead. In your case, personalisation makes that a little more difficult. Do you have any idea how far through the mail out is the script getting before it stops/stalls/bombs/cycles aimlessly? If not, why not? The previous respondent asked you for the exit criteria for your while loop. The code example below is not pure PHP. Again: what is it - show us the code. Are you suffering this problem on a production machine, but not on your development machine, ie do we have machine-differences to take into account? Have you tried commenting out the mail() command and replacing it with an ECHO To address (and perhaps a counter) to see just how far the script gets? If that works perfectly, then questions have to be asked about mail() and the email server being used... at the moment all the questions center on what you are ACTUALLY doing. Please advise, =dn > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > ----- 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 > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
