function time out

[Abarak2002]

Hello,

I have list of functions which pull information from various servers. The return value is then tossed into an array for parsing latter on in the application.

The problem I am experiencing is some servers are “unreliable” and may make the application run really slow. I would like to have it so each function has a timeout of 10 seconds and if it does not return anything it jumps to the next function. I have already messed around with set_timeout and it does not seem to function the way I have intended.

This is what I currently have….

error_reporting(0);

function return_information($server_info) {
	try { $Array[] = server_1($server_info); }
	catch (Exception $e) { report_bad_server($e,'server_1'); }

try { $Array[] = server_2($server_info); }
catch (Exception $e) { report_bad_server($e,'Amazon server_2'); }

try { $Array[] = server_3($server_info); }
catch (Exception $e) { report_bad_server($e,'Amazon server_3'); }

try { $Array[] = server_4($server_info); }
catch (Exception $e) { report_bad_server$e,'Bookbyte server_4'); }

return $Array;
}

function report_bad_server($exception,$server) {
	$message = "Exception Bad server ".$server."\n";
	$message .= 'Error message: '.$e->getMessage()."\n";
	$message .= 'Error code: '.$e->getCode()."\n";
	$message .= 'File and line: '.$e->getFile().'('.$e->getLine().")\n";
	$message .= 'Trace: '.$e->getTraceAsString()."\n";

mail("****@****.com","Error - Server Fault",$message);
}

I need it so I can set a 10 second time out on each server_3($server_info) function call.

Thank you for your assistance.

[Weedpacket]

No clue about how you're connecting to these servers, but [man]fsockopen[/man] comes with a timeout, and streams opened with [man]fopen[/man] can have their timeouts set with [man]stream_set_timeout[/man].

[Abarak2002]

I have about 13 server connections and each of them pull information in various ways. cURL, SOAP, and RSS.

Is their any way I can just create a timeout at the start of each function call?

[Weedpacket]

No clue about how you're connecting to these servers, but [man]fsockopen[/man] comes with a timeout, and streams opened with [man]fopen[/man] can have their timeouts set with [man]stream_set_timeout[/man].