[KLUG Members] Pages that take a mighty long time....

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>>I've written some pages in PHP that plow through a enourmous pile
>>>>of data,  and may take "a long time" to run.  Browser comes back with a
>>>>"Zero Sized Reply" or some such nonsense,  I assume it is a time-out
>>>>etc...  does anyonehave any clever ideas on how one would go about 
>>>>handling a situation such as this?  Or maybe I need to off down a 
>>>>diffrent track... 
>>>Maybe the problem is in /etc/php.ini?  i.e.:
>>>max_execution_time = 30     ; Maximum execution time of each script,
>>>in seconds
>>I use the set_time_limit in each loop,  so the counter for expiring
>>time should keep getting reset,  and I'm still protected from an internal 
>>loop going crazy. I've tried BIG values and it doesn't seem to effect it,  
>>but I'll nose about some more.
>Have you tried spitting out a little data to the web page in each
>loop?

There's and idea.  Is there anything I can spit out (a null equivalent) that
won't show up?  At the end I need to sort,  so I can write anything until I have
all the data globbed in the appropriate columns.

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