Getting around maximum execution time error

[Garrett]

I have a simple script that imports all images in a folder to my site and generates thumbnails. It works, but on folders with a rather large amount of images (500+) it can reach the max execution time and give a fatal error.

 

I could always break up my import folders into smaller chunks or increase the max execution time, but I am wondering if there is a different approach I could take.

 

Is there a way to reset the execution time of a script by inserting some kind of a pause/delay?

 

[seanlim]

See this: http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

 

When called, set_time_limit() restarts the timeout counter from zero.