Re: Timeout Function:

> 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. I don't disagree that some sort of alarm functionality would be interesting, simply looking at Perl is not going to cut it. Something like this needs to be integrated into the lowest levels of the language and an implementation in one language is not going to be very helpful in another. -Rasmus