How to keep a php script from timing out because of a long mysql query

Question

I have an update query being run by a cron task that\'s timing out. The query takes, on average, five minutes to execute when executed in navicat.

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Answer 1

I had the same problem somwhere, and "solved" it with the following code (first two lines of my file):

set_time_limit(0);
ignore_user_abort(1);