Re: Script not working correctly

Adjust the 'max_execution_time' in php.ini or with a call to ini_set() and it won't timeout. PHP is a great language, don't let something a silly as a default timeout value dissuade you from using it to do "longer running" things. -- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation scott (*) eac.com -- "Tomator" <tomator@wio.zsi.pl> wrote in message news:20020618073745.56135.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > I created this script to ping a host and if a response is not received > then > > insert into a second table and ping it after x amount of minutes. The > script > > seems to work fine until it starts to ping the hosts in the second table > > then it goes to page cant be displayed. I need to script to entire script > to > > run constantly but with a delay before it runs. Please help. > > Your script IS working correctly but maybe not as you want. PHP is not > designed to run 'constatnly running" scripts. If you try, you will geat an > timeout (after 30 seconds). > > If you want to repeat pinging any server after x seconds, use REFRESH. In > that way, your script will generate HTML page (with text "ping problems, > waiting...") and refresh it running script again (and again and.... until > you close browser window or go to another page). Try this: > > <html> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="refresh" > content="x;URL=http://want.to.ping.it.again"> > </head> > ... > </html> > > where "x" in third line is amount of seconds to wait > > >