With total disregard for any kind of safety measures "Magna"
<dsalang@hotmail.com> leapt forth and uttered:
> I have an app that processes a large number (over 300) xml files
> that are remote via http. It works fine if there are less than
> 100 xml files, but when it gets above that, it starts to hit the
> 30 second timeout. Bandwidth and processor is not an issue on
> either end, but it's a latency issue. So what I would like to
> do is spawn multiple independent threads so that it can grab
> multiple files at the same time and process them into mysql.
>
> Is this even possible? I couldn't seem to find a function that
> would allow me to do it. If not, anybody have any ideas on
> speeding up gathering xml files remotely?
>
>
>
PHP does not support threading natively, although there is an
experimental threads extension in development.

You can increase the script timeout limit using set_time_limit()

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