socket_set_timeout

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

socket_set_timeout -- Set timeout period on a socket

Description

bool socket_set_timeout ( int socket descriptor, int seconds, int microseconds)

Sets the timeout value on socket descriptor, expressed in the sum of seconds and microseconds.

Example 1. socket_set_timeout() Example <?php $fp = fsockopen("www.php.net", 80); if(!$fp) { echo "Unable to open\n"; } else { fputs($fp,"GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n"); $start = time(); socket_set_timeout($fp, 2); $res = fread($fp, 2000); var_dump(socket_get_status($fp)); fclose($fp); print $res; } ?>

This function was previously called as set_socket_timeout() but this usage is deprecated.

See also: fsockopen() and fopen().