is that possible ? how ?

[Bob Bedford]

Hi all,

Need help on a big problem I've.

Due to timeout (can't change settings or ISP...) I've to modify a script
that read an XML document and save sent pictures on a server.
This is a long time processing task and I get "out of time limit" every day.

Now my question is: it is possible to send the encoded images (they are in
[cdata] base 64 in XML) to an other script that will save the files on the
server ?

I mean call a script like that:
<a href="saveimage s.php?picarray= ".$picarray ." target="_blank" >click
here</abut off course without the a href but an automatic call maybe in
javascript ?

Please help, I spend 5 days on this without much success.

Bob

[B.r.K.o.N.j.A]

Re: is that possible ? how ?

Bob Bedford wrote:

Hi all,
>
Need help on a big problem I've.
>
Due to timeout (can't change settings or ISP...) I've to modify a script
that read an XML document and save sent pictures on a server.
This is a long time processing task and I get "out of time limit" every day.
>
Now my question is: it is possible to send the encoded images (they are in
[cdata] base 64 in XML) to an other script that will save the files on the
server ?
>
I mean call a script like that:
<a href="saveimage s.php?picarray= ".$picarray ." target="_blank" >click
here</abut off course without the a href but an automatic call maybe in
javascript ?
>
Please help, I spend 5 days on this without much success.
>
Bob
>
>
>

Maybe you could cron the script so it parses input as it arrives (let's
say every 20 minutes) - if you don't get your xml-s in big chunks but in
smaller chunks every so and so (like emails for example) that could be a
workaround...


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Assasination

[Bob Bedford]

Re: is that possible ? how ?

Maybe you could cron the script so it parses input as it arrives (let's

say every 20 minutes) - if you don't get your xml-s in big chunks but in
smaller chunks every so and so (like emails for example) that could be a
workaround...

hi B.r.K.o.N.j.A
I actually cron the script but every time it runs, each XML file is too big
to be managed in the allowed time.

I need a workaround to manage every file, not the list of file.

Bob

[Kim André Akerø]

Re: is that possible ? how ?

Bob Bedford wrote:

Hi all,
>
Need help on a big problem I've.
>
Due to timeout (can't change settings or ISP...) I've to modify a
script that read an XML document and save sent pictures on a server.
This is a long time processing task and I get "out of time limit"
every day.
>
Now my question is: it is possible to send the encoded images (they
are in [cdata] base 64 in XML) to an other script that will save the
files on the server ?
>
I mean call a script like that:
<a href="saveimage s.php?picarray= ".$picarray ." target="_blank" >click
here</abut off course without the a href but an automatic call
maybe in javascript ?
>
Please help, I spend 5 days on this without much success.

You could, for each image pass in the XML file, use the
set_time_limit( ) function to reset the maximum execution time. Either
that, or use it to set the maximum execution time to a higher number.

http://php.net/set-time-limit

I've used this before myself when I had to import a rather large user
base from a CSV file (saved from Excel) into a member management system
in PHP (and e-mail autogenerated user names and passwords to each of
the members in the import process).

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Kim André Akerø
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[Bob Bedford]

Re: is that possible ? how ?

You could, for each image pass in the XML file, use the

set_time_limit( ) function to reset the maximum execution time. Either
that, or use it to set the maximum execution time to a higher number.

http://php.net/set-time-limit

>
I've used this before myself when I had to import a rather large user
base from a CSV file (saved from Excel) into a member management system
in PHP (and e-mail autogenerated user names and passwords to each of
the members in the import process).

It has been disabled by the ISP so I can't do that.