Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

Question

I am downloading a JSON file from an online source and and when it runs through the loop I am getting this error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time

Answer 1

We can solve this problem in 3 different ways.

1) Using php.ini file

2) Using .htaccess file

3) Using Wp-config.php file ( for Wordpress )

Answer 2

I have same problem in WordPress site, I added in .htaccess file then working fine for me.

php_value max_execution_time 6000000

Answer 3

Edit php.ini

Find this line:

max_execution_time

Change its value to 300:

max_execution_time = 300

300 means 5 minutes of execution time for the http request.

Answer 4

You can remove the restriction by seting it to zero by adding this line at the top of your script:

<?php ini_set('max_execution_time', 0); ?>

Answer 5

To extend your max_execution_time you can use either ini_set or set_time_limit.

// Set maximum execution time to 10 seconds this way
ini_set('max_execution_time', 10);
// or this way
set_time_limit(10);

!! But be aware that, both functions restarts also counting of time script has already taken to execute

sleep(2);
ini_set('max_execution_time', 5);

register_shutdown_function(function(){
    var_dump(microtime(true) - $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT']);
});

for(;;);

//
// var_dump outputs float(7.1981489658356)
//

so if you want to set exact maximum amount of time script can run, your command must be very first.

Differences between those two functions are

• set_time_limit does not return info whether it was successful but it will throw a warning on error.
• ini_set returns old value on success, or false on failure without any warning/error

Answer 6

I had the same problem and solved it by changing the value for the param max_execution_time in php.ini, like this:

max_execution_time = 360      ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds (I CHANGED THIS VALUE)
max_input_time = 120          ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
;max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level
memory_limit = 128M           ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB by default)

I hope this could help you.