How to catch the fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in PHP

Question

I've been playing around with a system I'm developing and managed to get it to cause this:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

It happened when I was doing something unrealistic, but nevertheless it could happen with a user.

Does anyone know if there is a way to catch this exception? I've read around but everyone seems to suggest upping the time allowed.

Answer 1

How about trying as PHP documentation (well... at least one of its readers) say:

<?php
function shutdown()
{
 $a = error_get_last();

 if ($a == null) {echo "No errors";}
 else {print_r($a);}
}

register_shutdown_function('shutdown');
ini_set('max_execution_time', 1);
sleep(3);
?>

Have a look at the following links:

1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php#106061
2. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.register-shutdown-function.php