3rd Party Server Delay

[PHPJr]

Hi,

We are working on a script where we need to interact with 3rd party server to calculate results for the visitors on the website. The script gets data from a 3rd party server using web services and then uses that data to proceed with further calculations. Now some times the 3rd party server is very slow, and it takes more than a couple of minutes to get the data. We don’t want our visitors to wait for so long. If we don’t get response from 3rd part server in 10 sec. we want to ignore the 3rd party server and upload the rest of the webpage.

Is there any PHP function which will let us calculate the response time and if we don’t get any response from the 3rd party server we just stop seeking response and move ahead with rest of the calculation and uploading the webpage?

I will really appreciate if you experts can give me any advice.

Thanks

[NogDog]

How are you getting the data? If using cURL, you could set the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT option to 10 seconds (see [man]curl_setopt[/man]).

Another option would be to use an AJAX solution, having JavaScript on the page call a separate PHP script on the server to get the data once the page has loaded.

[PHPJr]

Hi NogDog,

Thanks for your answering. I really appreciate your help.

We are using SOAP to get our results. I will check with our programmer to see if there is any function such as SOAP_TIMEOUT. Also we have no control over SOAP server.

I think we can use Java Script. I will try Java Script today.

Thanks Again.

[NogDog]

Looks like you may be able to use the default_socket_timeout PHP setting for this.