---
title: "My $646 mistake with PHP"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-646-mistake-with-php--clcjttsc
source_url: https://dev.to/jringeisen/my-646-mistake-with-php-4l9d
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2022-01-22T12:45:23.920Z
updated: 2022-01-22T12:45:23.926Z
tags: ["google", "backend", "php"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 31
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# My $646 mistake with PHP

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 3 min read · 31 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

I pinged the Places API 17,000 times in one hour. A while loop in PHP will run until it gets a false back. I was using the $response['next_page_token'] from the initial request which will always return true. The value that I put in the while loop always returns true and therefore sends the whileloop into an infinite loop.

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