[RESOLVED] fsockopen slow

[abc123]

Hello all,
I'm having an issue with speed at the moment. Basically I have a database with a list of websites on it. I only want to display the sites that are actually 'live'.

I've used fsockopen and it does work. Only problem is it takes quite a while. I seem to be waiting at least 10 seconds for it to tell me the site is not responding.

It is very quick when the site does exist though.

I've played with the optional timeout from fsockopen but I see no difference.

Any suggestions? Is there another faster way to check a site is online using php?

Thanks.

[MarkR]

No, there is not a faster way. You should instead run a "cron" job to periodically check them all and store the results somewhere.

Then you can pull the liveness data out of a fast data source (e.g. database, file)

Mark

[abc123]

Thanks for your reply. I'll try what you suggested.