[snip] I've used the following line in some of my scripts, some of which run for 10 or 15 minutes. set_time_limit(0);
The server won't time out, but it takes a while to get anything back to the browser. It's not ideal, because it takes some time before anything gets sent back to the browser, but it does the trick. [/snip] Your server timeout would have to be ramped up too. And you can get output to the browser...let's say you are looping while($foo is good){ get data process date flush(information) } http://www.php.net/flush sends info to browser Anyone sense a theme here for me this morning?!? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php