Question

I have an update query being run by a cron task that’s timing out. The query takes, on average, five minutes to execute when executed in navicat.

The code looks roughly like this. It’s quite simple:

// $db is a mysqli link set_time_limit (0); // should keep the script from timing out $query = 'SLOW QUERY'; $result = $db->query($query); if (!$result)     echo 'error'; 

Even though the script shouldn’t timeout, the time spent waiting on the sql call still seems to be subject to a timeout.

Is there an asynchronous call that can be used? Or adjust the timeout?

Is the timeout different because it’s being called from the command line rather than through Apache?

Thanks

Answer 1

I had the same problem somwhere, and ‘solved’ it with the following code (first two lines of my file):

set_time_limit(0); ignore_user_abort(1);