cURL Error: Operation timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received woocomerce API - laravel

Question

Facing cURL Error: Operation timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received issues with Woocomerce API to create products.
I am using the Laravel package i.e https://github.com/Codexshaper/laravel-woocommerce
It was working fine and creating products but suddenly it stopped working and start throwing PHP errors.
Below are the method that I am using to create a book on Woocomerce from laravel Controller:
public function addProductToWC(Request $request)
{
set_time_limit(0);
$response = '';
if ($request->isMethod('post')){
if(!empty($request->get('book_id'))){
$book = Book::find($request->get('book_id'));
$coverImgPath = base_path('public/customize_book/'.Session::get('cover_image'));
if (file_exists($coverImgPath)) {
$imageurl = url('/public/customize_book/'.Session::get('cover_image'));
} else {
$imageurl = url('/images/'.$book->bookimage);
}
if(!empty($book->id)){
$data = [
'name' => $book->title,
'type' => 'simple',
'regular_price' => number_format($request->get('book_price')),
'description' => (!empty($book->description) ? $book->description :''),
'short_description' => 'Simple product short description.',
'categories' => [
[
'id' => 1
]
],
'images' => [
[
'src' => 'http://demo.woothemes.com/woocommerce/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2013/06/T_2_front.jpg'
],
[
'src' => 'http://demo.woothemes.com/woocommerce/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2013/06/T_2_back.jpg'
]
]
];
$product = Product::create($data);
if($product['id']){
$response = array('error' => false,'code' => '200', 'data' => array('product_id' => $product['id'], 'message' => 'Product created successfully.'));
}else{
$response = array('error' => true,'code' => '401', 'data' => array('product_id' => $product['id'], 'message' => 'Product syncing failed please try again later.'));
}
}else{
$response = array('error' => true,'code' => '401','message' => 'Invalid book detail please try again.');
}
}else{
$response = array('error' => true,'code' => '401','message' => 'Invalid book detail please try again.');
}
}else{
$response = array('error' => true,'code' => '401','message' => 'Invalid method please try again.');
}
// return response
return response()->json($response);
}

Answer 1

Looking at the composer.json at https://github.com/Codexshaper/laravel-woocommerce/blob/master/composer.json, I can see that they are using the woocommerce client "automattic/woocommerce": "^3.0" This defaults to a request timeout of 15 seconds, hence why set_time_limit(0); didn't fix the issue.
When using it directly you'd set the timeout in the options
$woocommerce = new Client(
env('MGF_WOOCOMMERCE_API_URL'), // Your store URL
env('MGF_WOOCOMMERCE_API_KEY'), // Your consumer key
env('MGF_WOOCOMMERCE_API_SECRET'), // Your consumer secret
[
'timeout' => 120, // SET TIMOUT HERE
'wp_api' => true, // Enable the WP REST API integration
'version' => 'wc/v3' // WooCommerce WP REST API version
]
);
Looking at the library source https://github.com/Codexshaper/laravel-woocommerce/blob/master/src/WooCommerceApi.php
$this->client = new Client(
config('woocommerce.store_url'),
config('woocommerce.consumer_key'),
config('woocommerce.consumer_secret'),
[
'version' => 'wc/'.config('woocommerce.api_version'),
'wp_api' => config('woocommerce.wp_api_integration'),
'verify_ssl' => config('woocommerce.verify_ssl'),
'query_string_auth' => config('woocommerce.query_string_auth'),
'timeout' => config('woocommerce.timeout'),
]
);
It looks like the timeout is coming from woocommerce.timeout in your Laravel config file.