Ohh, thats great, thanks pals, I think my problem will be solved by this. but if someone still has something better in their heads, please let it out. -- Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog/
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM, nitin gupta <[email protected]>wrote: > >> hey, thanks for pointing this out but as I see the job queue module uses a >> timer_read('page') to see the current execution time. Who starts this timer? >> Is it set by the PHP when the execution starts? becuase if it so, then the >> work is done. > > > Core Drupal starts this timer for you in bootstrap.inc. > > >> >> One more thing I would like to ask from the experienced ones, I have been >> working with PHP for just a while now (say 10 months), but what I am really >> confused about is how do we get to know so many things that are of our >> interest? I mean sometimes I just end up reinventing the wheel. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Nitin Kumar Gupta >> http://publicmind.in/blog/ >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Michael Prasuhn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You may want to check out the Job Queue module, as it provides the >>> functionality you are looking for. You could either add a dependency on it >>> (recommended) or at least read through the code to see how it works, to >>> prevent timeouts (It has a feature to check execution time and stop >>> processing if the time reached is half of the max execution time). >>> >>> http://drupal.org/project/job_queue >>> >>> -Mike >>> __________________ >>> Michael Prasuhn >>> 503.512.0822 office >>> [email protected] >>> http://mikeyp.net >>> >>> >>> On Sep 18, 2009, at 10:16 AM, nitin gupta wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am maintaining the module feedapi imagegrabber, which pulls the images >>>> from the original url of the feed items (just like google reader). It is >>>> implemented on the top of feedapi and hence implements the >>>> feedapi_after_refresh() hook, which is basically fired by the feedapi after >>>> it has refreshed the feed. >>>> >>>> Now, as my module download images from an external website, I can never >>>> be sure about the time it will take to complete the job of downloading >>>> images for all the feed items. Therefore, sometimes I get a 'fatal >>>> execution >>>> time exceeded error'. How can I know how much execution time is left, so >>>> that I can return on time by saving the rest of the work as a cron job? >>>> >>>> I have gone through the source code of FeedAPI which implements >>>> hook_cron(). It uses a variable called 'cron_semaphore', which I am >>>> guessing >>>> is some way to share execution time but am unable to get how. I will really >>>> appreciate if someone can explain the above to me or provide some tutorial >>>> links on writing a good hook_cron implementation. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Nitin Kumar Gupta >>>> http://publicmind.in/blog/ >>>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Khalid M. Baheyeldin > 2bits.com, Inc. > http://2bits.com > Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting. > Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra > Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci >
