Re: Timeout Function:

> Personally, I think having an alarm (timeout) function is a really good > idea. > > Setting a timer, and then being able to jump from whatever you are doing if > it is taking too long is something that has helped me do some really neat > stuff in C and Perl... and I was a little dissapointed when I learned PHP > didn't have. Although I've been able to solve my current problem with fsockopen(), I think an alarm function would be nice to have for other things. Perl is open-source, right? Probably the best way to implement this in PHP would be to look at how Perl is doing it and go from there. -- Jason Sims Senior Editor & System Administrator Inside Mac Games http://www.insidemacgames.com