Re: Timeout Function:

[Jason Sims <jason@insidemacgames.com>] > > 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. It's not that simple in PHP. Perl is a standalone environment, so you can use signals to your heart's delight. But PHP is usually one with Apache, and signals are not easily shared. I suggest implementing a timeout using ticks on the C level. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway