What are common strategies for handling large data processing in PHP to prevent timeouts?

When processing large amounts of data in PHP, it's common to run into timeout issues due to the script exceeding the maximum execution time. One strategy to prevent timeouts is to increase the maximum execution time limit using the `set_time_limit()` function. Another approach is to break the processing into smaller chunks and use pagination or batch processing to handle the data incrementally. 

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

// Process data in smaller chunks
$chunkSize = 1000;
$totalRecords = 10000;

for ($i = 0; $i < $totalRecords; $i += $chunkSize) {
    // Process data for current chunk
    // Example: $data = fetchData($i, $chunkSize);
    // ProcessData($data);
}

Keywords

memory_limit set_time_limit batch processing caching parallel processing

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