NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

Hans Zaunere wrote:

>--- Chris Snyder <chris at psydeshow.org> wrote:
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>>Hi folks, does anyone know of a way to cause something like 
>>fopen("http://example.com/") to time out after, say 5 seconds?
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>Best use fsockopen():
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>$fp = fsockopen('example.com',80,$errno,$errstr,5);
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>Which would try to connect to example.com on port 80 with a timeout of 5
>seconds, writing any error code or string to $errno or $errstr, respectively.
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>http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php
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>H
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Oh drat, I knew it was something simple. Thanks, Hans.

For any PHP developers lurking on this thread, it would be really great 
to have a settable timeout in the wrappers-- I hate watching my pages 
hang because some other site is down. :-(

Cheers!