Set time out for part of php script

Question

sorry for my English

I use file_get_contents function to get the HTML content of "www.example.com" as string and then process this string.

My problem is when this website take a lot of time to open, I want to set time out for a part of my script (not all script) so that if file_get_contents function take much time, my script will stop it and continue to next lines. I am using php5 is it possible to do this, I appreciate all your suggestions

example:

//set time out =  10S
$siteStr = @file_get_contents("www.example.com");
//10S is finished so stop file_get_contents and continue

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '14 at 11:02

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use curl

 function get_data($url) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 10;
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $data;
}

answered Jul 21 '14 at 11:02

Haim Evgi

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sorry but curl module not activated on my server and i don't have access to activate it. I must use file_get_content – Mohammad Alabed Jul 21 '14 at 11:05
so look on the comments, 10x – Haim Evgi Jul 21 '14 at 11:06
thanks man I found the solution in another question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10236166/does-file-get-contents-have-a-timeout-setting – Mohammad Alabed Jul 21 '14 at 11:11

Set time out for part of php script

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