anyway to make fopen time out?

[steveryan]

hi,

i have a script which uses fopen to check a lot of URLs to make sure they are still accessible. some of the URLs make the script hang for ages.

is there anyway to force fopen to give up after a certain number of seconds?

thanks

[rubric]

I had the same problem before. I posted a question on here and no body gave me an answer. After a few tries, I figured it out and it was infront of me the whole time. It's the socket_set_timeout() or the stream_set_timeout() functions.

Example:

$fp = fopen(...);

stream_set_timeout($fp,2); // set 2 second limit

fread($fp,...); // if 2 seconds pass without results, statement ends

Enjoy

[steveryan]

i'm specifically looking for fopen to time out, not fread!

any ideas?