Avoid Php script timeout

Kirby 2 Questions 🤔
1

i have a task for kirby to perform. crunshing a lot of page objects (and i mean like 20k) and update each of them. yes. using kirby like a database is not the best idea but it worked well for now. since i need to store some files as well and be able to adjust the db-structure (blueprints in my case) easily.

obviously there is a php timeout after a while. i would like to just refresh my update skript after like 25 sek (toolkit timer) and continue. i can do this using html header and setting some params to track offset in my dataset.

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"1\">\n";

i was wondering if calling the go() helper does the same? or is that kind of redirection still considered within the same execution timeframe. example

go($page->url().'/offset:'.$offset);

any other ideas how to do this properly with kirby?

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What about this:

set_time_limit(0);

Please note that you should only ever use this line right before stuff that takes long. Just setting it to 0 (= disable the timeout) in general is not a good idea.

3

did try that too, but maybe i did it wrong or maybe host simply does not allow it?
php safe_mode is OFF so it should work in theory.

lets say i would end up with 15 min execution time, some time spend in waiting for post request and file io. how would you solve something like that?

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It probably makes sense to run such a huge process from the command line instead. 15 minutes is way too long for most web servers, they will timeout even if PHP does not have a max execution time set.