[FX.php List] First Mass email = Too Many Redirects for Safari

[Alex Gates]

I'm pretty sure you can also use set_time_limit() if you can't edit php.ini

Steve Winter wrote:
> Greetings Mr Schwartz...
> 
> For a similar process that I run, which imports large spreadsheets into
> Filemaker (2500+ rows), which must be done through the web, I do a
> combination of both the things that you are referring to...
> 
> I do things as batches, and use a for(each) loop... so when the user first
> uploads the spreadsheet I extract the content and see how long it is... if
> it's more than $maxRecords (a variable which I was able to define through
> experimentation, which I eventually decided on 100 for) rows long, I process
> the first 100 rows, set a session variable counter to 100, another to the
> name of the spreadsheet, display a message to the user then use AJAX to
> re-call the same page, which checks for the session variables, it finds
> them, processes the next 100 rows, displays a message, and continues to
> loop...
> 
> This gets round two issues which I predicted when I was first building the
> page...
> 1. the page might timeout if there were too many records (had no idea about
> the server that it was going to be running on, nor if I'd have any way to
> edit php.ini on that server) ...
> 2. the user might wonder if anything was happening and try reloading the
> page, thereby re-starting the whole process...
> 
> It has worked very well to date...
> 
> Just a couple of further thoughts to add to your mental-mixer
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> (PS if anyone's interested in the code, let me know, happy to share ;-)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Schwartz
> Sent: 19 December 2007 17:40
> To: alex at gandrpublishing.com; FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] First Mass email = Too Many Redirects for Safari
> 
> At 10:53 AM -0600 12/19/07, Alex Gates wrote:
>> I don't see why you'd want to do so many finds when you could just 
>> get everything in one found set and foreach() through it.
>>
> 
> 
> I'm of that frame of mind now.
> 
> Thx
> 
> J