Re: fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
| From: | Phil Powell | Date: | Mon, 09 Dec 2002 06:46:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: fopen have a "setTimeout" feature? | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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Sorry, your code produced this error and I can't figure out how to debug it
:(
Warning:
fopen("http://www3.brinkster.com/soa/val/profile/display.asp?showLeftNavBann
er=1","r") - Error 0 in /users/ppowell/web/profiledisplay.php on line 4
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Ward" <timward@chessish.com>
To: "Phil Powell" <soazine@erols.com>; <talk@nyphp.org>;
<php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
> 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
>
>