External RSS Feed Slowing Down Page Load Time... way to set timeout?

[suttercain]

Hi guys,

 

I am using PHP to parse some RSS feeds that appear on my home page. The problem is, if one of these feeds hosts is slow, it slows down my page load time. Is there a way to set a time out, so if that RSS feed isn't loaded within a certain it can be skipped?

 

Thanks.

[BlueSkyIS]

probably, but we'd need to see the code that pulls the rss.