file(); timout?

[Hyaku_]

Hi!
In PHP manual, it says:
[code]Tip: You can use a URL as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been enabled. See fopen() for more details on how to specify the filename and Appendix M for a list of supported URL protocols.[/code]
What does it timeout and is it posible to specify my own timeout for it? Thanks!

[HuggieBear]

You could set a timeout for the whole script...

[code]<?php
ini_set('max_execution_time','10');
?>[/code]

This is set to 30 by default in the php.ini file.

Alternatively, if you want to set a timeout for that one command, then you're better off using the CURL library.

Regards
Huggie

[Hyaku_]

Thanks!
Yeah, I need to set timout just for that function, because  I need to read file from remote server and if it the server doesn't respond in ex. 10sec, then continue to execute script.

[HuggieBear]

In that case I'd go for the CURL option and use something like this:

[code]<?php

//Assign a new CURL instance to a handle
$ch = curl_init();

// Set the options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/file.htm"); // url to open
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // set timeout
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_HEADER, false); // don't include header output
curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // return details to a string rather than browser

// grab URL and pass it into a string
$file = curl_exec($ch);

// close CURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>[/code]

Regards
Huggie