I am developing a PHP web application for photographers.
A normal process would be a photographer uploads a folder of approx 1000 High res images by FTP and then clicks a button in the browser. At this point my script is triggered which resizes the image into 3 sizes.
Currently on my localhost this process is taking about 2 seconds to produce 1 image (resizing down from images about 2.5MB in size) So we can estimate that for 1000 images we are talking 30 – 40 minutes.
Can I set my max_execution_time php_ini setting to 45 minutes. Or is this a bad idea? What would you reccommend for something like this.
If you’re using GD to resize images – then it is a time to move to imagemagick.