Re: Report generation as pdf and csv in php application for huge record set

Hi, > - Browsers generally have a 5 minute time-out. If you send the PDF directly > to the browser and reach the limit, it will be lost. It is therefore advised > for very big documents to generate them in a file, and to send some data to > the browser from time to time (with a call to flush() to force the output). > When the document is finished, you can send a redirection to it or create a > link. > Remark: even if the browser times out, the script may continue to run on > the server. > <http://www.php.net/unsub.php> > When it comes to the user end, they wont wait for more than 1 min. So redirection after generating the report is not possible. But creating link may be a good idea. How can it be done? I mean shouldn't there be a service running in the server to process these request after the execution of the php script is completed? Also shouldn't we post all the report generation request to a database so that serial processing can be done?