Question

I have a piece of code that fetches data by giving it an ID. If I give it an ID of 1230 for example, the code fetches an article data with an ID of 1230 from a web site (external) and insert it into a DB.

Now, the problem is that I need to fetch all the articles, lets say from ID 00001 to 99999.
If a do a ‘for’ loop, after 60 seconds the PHP internal time limit stops the loop.
If a use some kind of header("Location: code.php?id=00001") or header("Location: code.php?id=".$ID) and increase $ID++ and then redirect to the same page the browser stops me because of the infinite loop or redirection problem.

Please HELP!

Answer 1

If your server lets you, this is probably the best solution: just remove the time limit for this script.

set_time_limit(0);