https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Execution Time Error when exporting to Excel en Mon, 04 May 2026 03:52:43 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/execution-time-error-when-exporting-to-excell#post-7852 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:19:45 +0000 discosteve 7852@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for your help - exporting to a CSV file instead of Excel worked fine.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/execution-time-error-when-exporting-to-excell#post-7850 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:19:17 +0000 yuniar 7850@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Actually, this is the execution time limit being set by your hosting company.<br /> By default, PHP has time limit of 30 seconds.</p> <p>I suggest to contact your hosting tech support and ask them to raise the limit.<br /> They can do it by modifying the PHP configuration file and set the value of "max_execution_time"</p> <p>Also, try to export using CSV format instead of Excel, it should be faster. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/execution-time-error-when-exporting-to-excell#post-7845 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:08:45 +0000 discosteve 7845@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I have a form with about 14,000 entries in it that I am trying to export to excel. I've run an export on this form before without any problems, but there were only about 1200 entries in the form then. When I try to export to excel now, it downloads an excel file after 30 seconds. When I open that file, the top row of says "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /path_to_machforms_install/lib/pear/Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/Worksheet.php on line 1547. I looked at line 1547 of the file referenced, but all it says is <code>$str = iconv($this-&gt;_input_encoding, &#39;UTF-16LE&#39;, $str);</code></p> <p>Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this so it doesn't time out after 30 seconds? I'm just assuming it's having trouble with it because there are so many entries. </p> <p>Thanks! </p>