posted October 25, 1999 02:56 AM            

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Hello everybody,
i am still trying to validate a file of email adresses,using the validateEmail script ,but it doesn't seem to work well enough on a long list of addresses,the processing stops with this message:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in validateEmail.php3 on line 79
here's a copy of the part of the program involved
fputs ( $fp, "RCPT TO: <$email>\n" );

$output = fgets ( $fp, 2000 );

if ( ereg ( "^25[0-9]", $output ) )
{ $return[0] = true; }
else
{
$return[0] = false;
$return[1] = $output;(line 79)

How can i bypass this problem or are there a
more efficient routine to test a list of email addresses?
Thanks by advance
Patrice

posted October 25, 1999 06:20 AM            

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There may be a more efficient way, but there is an easy solution. Add this line to your script:

set_time_limit(n);

Where n is the time in seconds you wish to allow the script to run. The default is 30 seconds which is why you are getting that error.

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