How to deal with overtime issues?

[smallearth]

function load_file
How to deal with overtime issues?

[cereal-s]

Hi,

it's a bit late, I know, but if you see at load_file() it's basically a wrap to file_get_contents() that allows to set a stream context in which you can define a timeout. The timeout will emit a warning (formally E_WARNING). So, to keep it clean you can define an error handler and use a try/catch to execute the code. An example:

// catch all
set_error_handler(function($severity, $message, $filename, $lineno) {
    throw new ErrorException($message, 0, $severity, $filename, $lineno);
}, -1 & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_USER_NOTICE);

$url  = ''; // define the url
$html = new simple_html_dom();

try {
    $options = ['http' => ['method' => 'GET', 'timeout' => 10]]; // 10 seconds
    $context = stream_context_create($options);
    $result  = $html->load_file($url, NULL, $context);
} catch (ErrorException $e) {
    $result  = 'There was an error'; // change to empty string
}

print $result . PHP_EOL;
print 'done' . PHP_EOL;

The arguments passed to load_file() are those of the file_get_contents() function, which signature looks like this:

string file_get_contents ( string $filename [, bool $use_include_path = false [, resource $context [, int $offset = 0 [, int $maxlen ]]]] )