Solving a 2006 MySQL error connection timeout in Magento1
In my recent task I was testing a web crawler script which uses Magento database information for the crawling requests. I have encountered the following error: Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away’ in lib/Zend/Db/Statement/Pdo.php:228 The Problem This error occured after around 45 minutes of script runtime. The script was written in a way that it was possible that there is no database interaction for a longer period. In consequence to that…