Exporting large number of entries causing server timeout issues

  • Resolved danielsps

    (@danielsps)


    1 year, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    Sometimes we have tens of thousands of entries that we would like to export, but the problem is that we have to increase the server timeout limit to an unreasonable amount, which takes considerable server resources. Is there a plan to improve the plugin so that it can process all the entries more effectively? For example, processing entries in batches so that the server receives some response and doesn’t time out and also the export process would require much less memory.

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Author Doeke Norg

    (@doekenorg)

    Hi @danielsps,

    Sorry, but at the moment we don’t have plans to change this soon. The writing of a large .xlsx file unfortunately takes a lot of memory. And setting the timeout limit server-wide probably isn’t a good idea indeed.

    However, you could try to use set_time_limit(0) just before the download using the gfexcel_event_download-hook. This will set the timeout limit to infinity for that request only. I hope that helps you out for now.

    We did make a note of your request, and will take a look at it somewhere in the future. If we have an update on this, we’ll let you know on this topic.

    Kind regards,

    Doeke

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