Question

I have a script that loads a massive directory listing and just (in it’s nature) takes forever to load. I’m now in some cases experiencing the script timing out and was curious if I could use something like usleep to keep the script from timing out or if I’ll just make the situation worse?

Answer 1

PHP can try to look for a file/directory that doesn’t exist for a long time so if you’re already using something like:

if ((is_dir($path) || file_exists($path)) && ($dh = opendir($path)))
{
  while(($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)
  {
    .. file or dir is found, do stuff :)
  }

  closedir($dh);
}

I haven’t said a word, but if you simply use:

$dh = opendir($path);

It can take a few minutes before the script times out, but it doesn’t do anything.