What are best practices for handling timeout issues in PHP scripts that involve processing a large amount of data?

When processing a large amount of data in PHP scripts, timeout issues can occur when the script takes longer to execute than the server's configured timeout limit. To handle this issue, you can increase the maximum execution time limit using the `set_time_limit()` function in PHP. This function sets the maximum time in seconds a script is allowed to run before it is terminated.

// Set maximum execution time to 5 minutes (300 seconds)
set_time_limit(300);

// Your data processing code here
// This will now have up to 5 minutes to execute before timing out