OK, so assuming I have in fact lost a connection during a script due
to inactivity, is there a way to open a doctrine connection in the
middle of a script, or is that just all taken care of at
initialization?

TIA,

Tom

On Sep 24, 8:58 am, Tom Haskins-Vaughan <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I'm running the script as a task with a cron job. I'm not generating the
> file, the files are held in a remote ftp directory, posted by a real
> estate listing service. They're basically a pipe delimited files of new
> and modified properties for sale.
>
> So my flow is:
>
>   1. download file, creating log as I go
>   2. unzip file if download was completed
>   3. process file and insert data into property table
>
> As I say, I use the log to keep track of the status of each file.
>
> Jeremy Thomerson wrote:
> > Are you generating this file during an HTTP request that is also
> > downloading it?
>
> > Although I still don't understand what you're doing, try changing it to
> > a command line task rather than something that is triggered by HTTP.  
> > Then execute it from the shell or cron.  Then you can just rsync the files.
>
> > Jeremy
>
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Tom Haskins-Vaughan
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> >     Well, basically, I have to download loads of file, unzip them and
> >     process the content. But I only get 15 minutes of execution time with my
> >     current host, so I have a log table which tells me where I am and where
> >     to pick up from the next time the script runs (every 20 minutes). I need
> >     to know that the filehasdownloaded correctly before I unzip it so
> >     after it's downloaded I put the enter the download_completed_at field.
> >     Then I know that I can unzip it the next time around.
>
> >     The problem is, I'm losing the connection during the time it takes to
> >     download the file.
>
> >     Eno wrote:
> >      > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Tom Haskins-Vaughan wrote:
>
> >      >> But the problem is, by the time I've downloaded the file, I've
> >     lost the
> >      >> connection (SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQLserver
> >    hasgone away)
>
> >      >> Is there any way to reconnect the database?
>
> >      > What does a file download have to do with your database?
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