How do you get a Cronjob executing a PHP script to run longer than 30 seconds?

Question

How can I rewrite this into a cron that will run every day for longer than 30 seconds? Also, do I need to edit the .htaccess or php.ini file in the

Answer 1

You could also use ini_set('max_execution_time', 60)

But as the manual page says, in some cases (i.e. running in safe mode) this will have no effect at all: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.max-execution-time

It could also be possible that the php.ini for client line has different max execution values than for the browser. I have seen it sometimes.