Re: Timeout Function

> > That's not true. If you use register_shutdown_function() then this > > function you register will be run once the timeout hits. See the chapter > > in the manual on connection handling. > > But this still doesn't let you apply a timeout to a specific block of code. > I am doing ad calls to a remote server with PHP, and I want to be able to > timeout just the readfile() function I'm using to do the call, and to > execute an alternate block of code when it times out. I don't want to abort > execution of the entire script; just that portion thereof. Right, but when you are doing network work like this you should be using fsockopen() directly which does have timeout support. readfile() with a url argument just does a simple fsockopen anyway and issues a GET request. Trivial to do yourself using fsockopen() and fputs() and this way you can manage the timeouts yourself. Introducing a language-level timeout feature is complicated. > I am including a small file with some PHP code in a larger script; can I > have a separate timeout for the included script, or does it apply to the > main script? If I could have separate timeouts for included scripts, it > could serve as a workaround for using timeouts on specific blocks of code. No, included files are part of the same script. We do have the 'ticks' feature which lets you identify a block of code that will be interrupted every now and and a function you define is called. Doesn't quite do what you need though. The best approach for you is to just use fsockopen(). -Rasmus