Ugly time-out error

[brainlag]

When the remote site is down, I get this error...

"Warning: socket_set_timeout(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /va/iou/s/folders/toht/doc/html/FBIS1-2.php on line 28
Buoy data currently unavailable - file could not be loaded"

It would be very desireable to have only the "Buoy data unavailable"

Any ideas?

if ( (!(file_exists($cache_file))) || ((filectime($cache_file) + $cache_time - $time[1]) + $cache_time_rnd < 0) || (!(filesize($cache_file))) ) {

$url = parse_url($backend);
$fp = fsockopen($url['host'], "80", &$errno, &$errstr, $timeout);
if(!$fp) {
	echo "<tr><td>NO DATA<br><br><br></td></tr></table>\n";
	return;
} else {
	$fpread = @fopen($backend, 'r');
	socket_set_timeout($fpread, 3);
	if(!$fpread) {
		echo "<tr><td>Buoy data currently unavailable - file could not be loaded<br><br><br></td></tr></table>\n";
		return;
	} else {
		$fpwrite = @fopen($cache_file, 'w');
		if(!$fpwrite) {
			echo "<tr><td>Buoy data currently unavailable - could not read cache file<br><br><br></td></tr></table>\n\n";
			return;

[drew010]

put a @ in front of socket_set_timeout and it will supress the output of the php error.

[brainlag]

Thank you, that worked beautifully 😃

Does anyone have a link to a page that explains why adding the "@" worked? I tried searching for it, but the @ doesn't show up in searches and the manual and search links on here are dead for some reason.

Again, thank you!!

[drew010]

its an operator so its in the operators section of the manual found here:
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php

[brainlag]

Again, thanks. Knowing that about the '@' opens a whole new realm of possibilities. 😃

Thanks for the link.