How to hold execution for a spesific time period

niroshan

Hi,
does anybody know how to hold the execution of a php program for a specific period of time. Some thing simillar like using timer in visual basic.
In visual basic we can hold the program execution by using timer control so i want to know how to do the same thing in PHP. Is there is any functions for that.
I heard that there is a function called 'set_time_limit ()' , but i have never used it.
does anybody know how to use this function and what it does?

In my program i want to wait till the server response before sending the other command to the server. So thats why i need some thing like this, so while waiting i can get the server response correctly. Any ideas about how I can achieve this.

Your ideas greately appreciated.

I need your help desperately,

regards,
Niroshan

sdjensen

$seconds = 10; // wait 10 seconds
sleep ( $seconds);

But please have a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php

niroshan

Hi,

Thank you very much for your reply.

regards,
Niroshan

Bijan

Well, I think you're looking for the wrong command my friend! Sleep waits, right, but it doesn't get anything while it's waiting! So, you only make your page slower and after your delay, you have to check if you got your data, if not, you have to wait again, that basically sux! We have something called "flush" that will flush the server ( 😃 ) and sends everything to your script. Using this function, you don't need to simulate anything!