note 24529 modified in function.time by jmcastagnetto

[Editor's note: the contributor to the note did not know of the sleep() and usleep() functions that already do the job for you.] If you want to have your program wait for a period of seconds. //arg is the number of seconds to wait function wait($arg) { $then = time() + $arg; //echo "then=" . $then . "<br>\n"; while(1) { $now = time(); //echo "now=" . $now . "<br>\n"; if($now > $then) return; } } wait(3); --was-- If you want to have your program wait for a period of seconds. //arg is the number of seconds to wait function wait($arg) { $then = time() + $arg; //echo "then=" . $then . "<br>\n"; while(1) { $now = time(); //echo "now=" . $now . "<br>\n"; if($now > $then) return; } } wait(3); http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.time.php