Sorry to bump this, guys, but it's holding up my development. Can
anyone even just confirm or deny whether it's possible to reconnect to
a Doctrine database during the middle of a script. If it's impossible,
I'll just use a native mysql connection for this part.

Thanks,

Tom

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Tom Haskins-Vaughan
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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