Re: file_get_contents for URLs?

> Hey all, Hello. > I'm doing some maintenance work on an existing system and there is a piece > of code that uses file_get_contents() to read data from a URL, which is fine > in theory I suppose. > > But the problem is sometimes the server where that URL lives is not > available, and the system hangs indefinitely. > > Shouldn't this be done with curl, and if so can it be done so that the call > will time out and return control back when the server is not available? Looking at the docs alone, it looks like you can pass a stream as the third argument to file_get_contents(). So create a stream, set the timeout on that (using stream_context_create() & stream_context_set_option() ), and then pass it to file_get_contents(). -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Canvas graphing for Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.net (Updated March 28th)