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PHP Advice Required

Asked by ellandrd in PHP Scripting Language, Miscellaneous Web Development, Web Languages/Standards

I developed a WordPress plugin for a clients website.  The website is a property website and the client wants to be able to upload a new list of properties each week.  

The property details will be in XML format and properties photos will be in a folder called "images". Both the XML file and the folder "images" will be in a ZIP file.

The plugin I have developed allows the client to upload the ZIP file to the server that hosts their WordPress website.  

I then extract the ZIP file and move the "images" folder to another location on the server - works fine.
I then parse the XML file reading each node, grabbing the values and building an array - works fine.

However the clients website uses Google maps and for the property search results page plots each property on the Google map.

The XML file does not contain the latitude and longitude values so I need to get the latitude and longitude values for each property, where I can do fine, although Google returns no latitude and longitude values for some of the properties....

The problem I have is after I've built the array containing the property details.  The step I do is get the latitude and longitude values and update the array which works fine.  I then carry out the database insertion.  So I loop over each item in the array and insert the values into a table "tblProperty"

So far so good.  My thinkings all seem fine and it should work well.  BUT IT DOESNT.  The script finishes processing which takes a good 3 minutes without any errors.  However when I look in the table their is only about 65 records.

The sample ZIP file I was given by the client had 122 properties....  Yep - I know what your thinking - half are missing!!

So how do I overcome this?  Batch processing?  use sleep() function ??

Whats your advice on this?

p.s If you suggest batch processing please provide detailed description / explainations on how I would handle everything.

Ellandrd
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