Running for loop function inside Laravel Observable - php

Question

I have an orders table with orderStatus and paymentStatus fields. When an order is made, the orderStatus is set to initialized and paymentStatus set to pending.
At the point when the order is created, I want to check if paymentStatus changed. If it did not, change after 12 minutes I want to update orderStatus to completed and 'paymentStatustoaborted`.
I have a schedule task that checks every one minute but unfortunately I have not been able to run cron jobs on Bluehost. So I tried using a for loop in the create method of OrderObserver but the code doesn't work.
public function created(Order $order)
{
// check if user reservation record exist
$reservation = Reservation::where([
['user_id', $order->user_id],
['product_id', $order->product_id]
]);
if ($reservation) {
// delete reservation record
$reservation->delete();
}
// start 12 mins count down for payment
$period = ($order->created_at)->diffInMinutes();
for ($counter = 0; $period >= 12; ++$counter) {
$order->update([
'orderStatus' => 'completed',
'paymentStatus' => 'aborted'
]);
}
}
From php artisan tinker, I can see that this part of the code works
for ($counter = 0; $period >= 12; ++$counter) {
$order->update([
'orderStatus' => 'completed',
'paymentStatus' => 'aborted'
]);
}
Why does the code not run in the observable?

Answer 1

This might have to do something with the fact that you are blocking php executing for 12 minutes, by making it be stuck in the same for loop. You're probably exceeding the max executing time.
max_execution_time integer
This sets the maximum time in seconds a script is allowed to run before it is terminated by the parser. This helps prevent poorly written scripts from tying up the server. The default setting is 30. When running PHP from the command line the default setting is 0.
Seeing as artisan tinker runs from the command line, it makes sense that it works there.