How to timeout php functions

[Andrew R]

Hi there. 

 

How do I stop a function from running it it's taking to long to proccess.  For example, say after 10 seconds the code is still working I display an error message?  As you can in the following code it's pulling the contents from an url or file which might take too long to load.

 

function Tester($url);
{

return file_get_contents($url);

}

 

 

Thanks a mil

 

 

[Anti-Moronic]

This will likely interest you:

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

 

Hope that helps!