I am calling a series of links using the file_get_contents()
method in a loop. Each link may take more than 15 minutes to process. Now, I worry about whether PHP's file_get_contents()
has a timeout period?
If yes, it will time out with a call and move to next link. I don't want to call the next link without the prior one finishing.
So, please tell me whether file_get_contents()
has a timeout period. The file which contains the file_get_contents()
is set to set_time_limit()
to zero (unlimited).
The default timeout is defined by default_socket_timeout
ini-setting, which is 60 seconds. You can also change it on the fly:
ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 900); // 900 Seconds = 15 Minutes
Another way to set a timeout, would be to use stream_context_create
to set the timeout as HTTP context options of the HTTP stream wrapper in use:
$ctx = stream_context_create(array('http'=>
array(
'timeout' => 1200, //1200 Seconds is 20 Minutes
)
));
echo file_get_contents('http://example.com/', false, $ctx);
As @diyism mentioned, "default_socket_timeout, stream_set_timeout, and stream_context_create timeout are all the timeout of every line read/write, not the whole connection timeout." And the top answer by @stewe has failed me.
As an alternative to using file_get_contents
, you can always use curl
with a timeout.
So here's a working code that works for calling links.
$url='http://example.com/';
$ch=curl_init();
$timeout=5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
It is worth noting that if changing default_socket_timeout on the fly, it might be useful to restore its value after your file_get_contents call:
$default_socket_timeout = ini_get('default_socket_timeout');
....
ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 10);
file_get_contents($url);
...
ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $default_socket_timeout);
For me work when i change my php.ini in my host:
; Default timeout for socket based streams (seconds)
default_socket_timeout = 300