simpleXML - simplexml_load_file() timeout?

Hello all, My website uses simpleXML to print the headlines from a few different RSS feeds. The problem is that sometimes the remote feed is unavailable if there are problems with the remote site, and the result is that I must wait for 30 seconds or so until the HTTP timeout occurs, delaying the rendering of my site. So far, I have moved the code that grabs the RSS feeds to the bottom of my page, so that the main page content is rendered first, but this is only a partial solution. Is there a way to give the simplexml_load_file() a 5 second timeout before giving up and moving on? Here is my function: function getFeed($remote) { if (!$xml = simplexml_load_file($remote)) { print "Feed unavailable"; return; } print "<ul>\n"; foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) { $cleaned = str_replace("&", "&amp;", $item->link); print "<li><a href='$cleaned'>$item->title</a></li>\n"; } print "</ul>\n"; } PHP 5.1.2 on Linux. thanks, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

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