Re: fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
| From: | Tim Ward | Date: | Sun, 08 Dec 2002 20:10:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: fopen have a "setTimeout" feature? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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how about something like...
$start = time();
$timeout = 60; // number of seconds to try
while (!$file = fopen("...") && time() < $start + $timeout);
if ($file)
{ // do stuff with file
}
Tim Ward
http://www.chessish.com
mailto:timward@chessish.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Powell <soazine@erols.com>
To: <talk@nyphp.org>; <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
Can you set something like a "setTimeout" feature in fopen? That is, if you
use fopen to open a URL for "scraping", if that URL's server is down or
doesn't respond in x seconds, can you set a feature to show an error message
or a "friendly" error message indicating such?
Thanx
Phil