PHP: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded, continue looping

Question

I'm writing a a php script where i do a loop and inside the loop there is a particular function processing information, as illustrated here.

while (some condition){
    // some code
    processInformation();
    // Some more code
}

Well it turns out that midway, inside processInformation(), I encountered the error Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded. Using set_time_limit(0), would not help in my situation because processInformation() might take forever. I don't want an error to completely break my program, so is there anyway i can catch an exception or tell php to "continue" the loop if processInformation() takes too long?

Answer 1

You can increase the value of maximum execution time from 30 seconds to any value. For example: if you want to set the limit of maximum execution time of 3 minutes (instead of 30 seconds), then you can set as:

ini_set('max_execution_time', 180); //maximum execution time of 3 minutes

This way, you can set the time based on your need.

Answer 2

I dunno how to catch the exception but you could use a simple time calculation to escape after say 60 secs. ()

$x=time();
while (some condition){

    processInformation();

    if ($x + 60) < time() 
    break;

}