What are the best practices for handling timeouts in PHP scripts that need to run continuously?

When running PHP scripts that need to run continuously, it is important to handle timeouts properly to prevent the script from being terminated prematurely. One way to handle timeouts is by setting a longer execution time limit using the set_time_limit() function or by using the ignore_user_abort() function to prevent the script from being terminated when the client disconnects.

// Set a longer execution time limit
set_time_limit(0);

// Ignore user abort
ignore_user_abort(true);

// Your continuous script logic goes here
while(true) {
    // Code to run continuously
}