Question

I’m having trouble with this PHP script where I get the error

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/vhosts/richmondcondo411.com/httpdocs/places.php on line 77

The code hangs here:

function getLocationsFromTable($table){

    $query = "SELECT * FROM `$table`";
    if( ! $queryResult = mysql_query($query)) return null;

    return mysql_fetch_array($queryResult, MYSQL_ASSOC);

}

and here (so far):

function hasCoordinates($houseNumber, $streetName){

    $query = "SELECT lat,lng FROM geocache WHERE House = '$houseNumber' AND StreetName = '$streetName'";
    $row = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query($query), MYSQL_ASSOC);
    return ($row) ? true : false;

}

both on the line with the mysql_query() call.

I know I use different styles for each code snippet, it’s because I’ve been playing with the first one trying to isolate the issue.

The $table in the first example is ‘school’ which is a table which definitely exists.
I just don’t know why it sits there and waits to time out instead of throwing an error back at me.

The mysql queries from the rest of the site are working properly. I tried making sure I was connected like this

//connection was opened like this:
//$GLOBALS['dbh']=mysql_connect ($db_host, $db_user, $db_pswd) or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());

if( ! $GLOBALS['dbh']) return null;

and it made it past that fine. Any ideas?

Update

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It’s not the size of the tables. I tried getting only five records and it still timed out. Also, with this line:

$query = "SELECT lat,lng FROM geocache WHERE House = '$houseNumber' AND StreetName = '$streetName'";

it is only looking for one specific record and this is where it’s hanging now.

Answer 1

Time spent waiting for mysql queries to return data does not count towards the execution time. See here.

The problem is most likely somewhere else in the code – the functions that you are blaming are possibly called in an infinite loop. Try commenting out the mysql code to see if I’m right.