I have a function for a wordpress plugin I'm developing that takes a lot of time. It connects to the TMDb (movies database) and retrieves one by one all movies by id (from 0 to 8000) and creates a XML document that is saved on the local server. Of course it takes a bunch of time, and PHP says "504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time."
What can I do???? any sugestions!!!
Assuming a one-time execution and it's bombing on you, you can set_time_limit to 0 and allow it to execute.
<?php
set_time_limit(0); // impose no limit
?>
However, I would make sure this is not in production and it will only be ran when you want it to (otherwise this will place (and continue to place) a large load on the server).
echo 'Working...'; flush(); which will continue to push data to the listening client until it's complete.flush tells php to force-output of anything waiting to be sent to the client. Normally PHP holds on to the entire document's content (waiting for the entire page to be rendered) before it sends it off so it can fill the Content-Length header accurately. But, you can circumvent it by calling flush and force whatever is in the back-log to get sent to the client.
Try to set:
set_time_limit(0);
at the script head. But i think it's the servers problem, you read too long. Try read in thread mode.
I think this is not related to script timeout.
504- Gateway Timeout problem is entirely due to slow IP communication between back-end computers, possibly including the Web server.
Fix: Either use proxies or increase your cache size(search for "cache" in your php.ini and play with it) limit.
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