note 55956 added to function.soap-soapclient-construct

an undocumented feature -> setting a connection timeout $client = new SoapClient($wsdl, array("connection_timeout"=>5)); ideally you'd have two timeouts set in your application one for how long it should take to actually connect to your remote host and a timeout for how long the socket connection should wait for a response from the server the above addresses the time it takes to wait to connect to your host and this addresses the time to wait for a response ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 180); I would wrap this in a configuration option in case you distribute your package and different clients might need different timeouts when dealing with slow soap server responses. // SET SOCKET TIMEOUT if(defined('RESPONSE_TIMEOUT') && RESPONSE_TIMEOUT != '') { ini_set('default_socket_timeout', RESPONSE_TIMEOUT); } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.soap-soapclient-construct.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+55956 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55956&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55956&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55956&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55956&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55956&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55956&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+55956&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php