I have got a script that sends a message to a server and waits for a response, but I can't find any way to make it timeout after say 2 seconds. Here is (the relevant bit of) my code:[code]function query ($ip, $port = 29900) { $buf = chr (254).chr (253).chr (0).chr (4).chr (5).chr (6).chr (7).chr (255). chr (255).chr (255).chr (1); $socket = socket_create (AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP); socket_set_option ($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, 1); socket_sendto ($socket, $buf, strlen ($buf), 0, $ip, $port); $packet = null; if (!socket_recvfrom ($socket, $packet, 2048, 0, $ip, $port)) { $players = -1; } else { $players = parse ($packet); } return $players; }[/code]