Re: [kDev] PHP gurus: quick fix coding question...

[Daniel Harris <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow! I get it now. That's a very simple solution. I like it lots.

Many thanks

Daniel

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 11:06  am, Scott Switzer wrote:
> If at the top of the PHP page you put the two directives, you can hit
> the 'stop' button on your browser and walk away.  If you want
> confirmation that it ran, create a file-based or DB based log file with
> relevant data that you can check later.
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 11:01, Daniel Harris wrote:
> > Hi Scott and All,
> >
> > I should have put more emphasis on the speed of the operation rather
> > than the need for it not to time out. For example if I'm in a Internet
> > cafe in some foreign land and I get that urge to send out a Kendra
> > newsletter I can't be waiting for half an hour for the zspamall.php to
> > fully load with an "all sent". I just need to click send and leave. 
> > So,
> > the operation has to be carried out by a non-webpage script, yes?
> >
> > Cheers Daniel
> >
> > On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 10:44  am, Scott Switzer wrote:
> > > @set_time_limit (0);
> > > @ignore_user_abort(true);
> > >
> > > The script will not timeout (except in some cases where the script 
> > > runs
> > > overnight - then it stops at midnight for some reason...)