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PHP: Processing thousands of entries, script dies after certain amount

I'm calling an MLS service that responds with 4000+ records ... and I need to process each and every one of them, as well as insert all of the meta data per listing.

I'm able to get to about 135 (* 150 meta records) and then the script apparently stops responding, or at least stops processing the rest of the data.

I've added the following to my .htaccess file:

php_value memory_limit 128M

But this doesn't seem to help me any. Do I need to process chunks of the data at a time, or is there another way to ensure that the script will indeed finalize?

Solution

  • It isn't the memory- it's most likely the script execution time.

    Try adding this to your htaccess, then restart apache:

    php_value max_execution_time 259200