fopen

[essexboy]

Two sites on different hosts

site one: includes a file from site two. site two regulary goes down, how do i prevent site one from hanging?

$fp = @fopen("http://www.sitetwo.com/file.php","r"); 
if ($fp) 
{ include("http://www.sitetwo.com/file.php"); } 
else 
{ echo""; } 

essexboy

[laserlight]

maybe use set_time_limit() ?

[essexboy]

i think this from http://www.php.net/set_time_limit has a bearing...

I think it might be useful to point out that set_time_limit() doesn't have any effect on stream operations. A stalled script, either during open operations (e.g. fsockopen()) or read operations (e.g. fgets()), can make your script run "forever".

So it would be advisable to define timeouts for opening sockets (with the timeout parameter in fsockopen()) and for reading data from sockets (with socket_set_timeout()).