Question

I have a problem while parsing an XML File of 1986 lines .. it gives me execution timeout!!

here is my code:

$XML_File = simplexml_load_file("EXTERNAL URL");

$projects = $XML_File->channel->item;
$i = 0;
while($projects)
{
    $title = $projects[$i]->title;
    $link = $projects[$i]->link;
    $description = $projects[$i]->description;
    $category = $projects[$i]->category;
    $i++;
}

When I run it, it times out after 30 secs, without returning any result!!

When I changed the while to a for loop .. with a max of 4 it worked fine .. Is there a way to parse a big file?? Or shall I move to creating a desktop application??

Answer 1

$XML_File = simplexml_load_file("EXTERNAL URL"); 

$projects = $XML_File->channel->item; 
$i = 0; 
while($projects) 
{ 
    $title = $projects[$i]->title; 
    $link = $projects[$i]->link; 
    $description = $projects[$i]->description; 
    $category = $projects[$i]->category; 
    $i++; 
} 

I don’t think this is ever going to finish. You’re just checking to see if $projects exists.

Maybe something like this will work:

while(isset($projects[$i]))
....