Re: How to detect a PHP script time-out?

Timothy Hitchens ) wrote:

There is one last option ... register an output buffer as I suggested before suggested but this time do the reverse and you don't have to rewrite your scripts:

Ok I think I understand what you are proposing. I just have one question about your example code. Where does the string "Maximum execution" come from? Is this output automatically by PHP when a script times out? Would it be possible to use: if (connection_status == 2) {} Jc

<?php ob_start('scriptTimeout'); // set to 1 this should show the error below set to 2 and above you should get the normal output!! set_time_limit(1); function scriptTimeout($buffer) {

        if (eregi('Maximum execution', $buffer))
        {
                $buffer = 'Server Overloaded!!';
        }

        return $buffer;

} // // content area // for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000; $i++) {

        $output = $i;

} echo 'We are upto a final count of: '.$output; ?>