[Logician]

Today at 02:38 PM Morgalis said this in Post #42
I'm using this on a really large community, but I am pretty aware of the people that I am looking for.

I would like to be able to extend the search time for the script as I get this error

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /usr/home/diabloworld/forums/admin/user.php on line 1341

You can insert

PHP Code:

set_time_limit(600); 


right before hack code to avoid this error.

GREAT hack btw, you just need to have more patience and awareness with a large forum I think.

You are missing the fact that technological structure of the hack does not let it be used in large forum, it is not related to my awareness.

This is because:
The hack checks all IPs in the post database and user database to make an extensive and successful matching and to complete this search quickly and without making your server busy, your database size must be small (ie your board must be a small board). If you use the hack in a large board like yours, it is inevitable that you'll run into problems just like the error you have in your hands now. It shows that the hack can not finish matching the users in 30 seconds everytime it runs so its putting a burden to your server to compare a huge list. My solution can avoid this error but it does not show that it is ok to use the hack with your board. Because my solution above just makes sure you don't get the error but the burden in your server will there everytime someone registers and more imporatly he will have a looong waiting time when he clicks "register" button even if you don't have an error message.

This is inevitable.

The only chance is to avoid it is to recode the hack so that it will not make comparisons in the entire database (this means it will produce less successful results at the end).

So as you can see we have a technical restriction here, regarding large boards..