Maybe it's too late to say this, but if your real problem is that you
don't want the function reading
the rss feed to block the rest of your page, you can always put the
output of the reading of the feed
on a separate page, and include this through an iframe.
darren kirby wrote:
Hello all,
My website uses simpleXML to print the headlines from a few different RSS
feeds. The problem is that sometimes the remote feed is unavailable if there
are problems with the remote site, and the result is that I must wait for 30
seconds or so until the HTTP timeout occurs, delaying the rendering of my
site.
So far, I have moved the code that grabs the RSS feeds to the bottom of my
page, so that the main page content is rendered first, but this is only a
partial solution.
Is there a way to give the simplexml_load_file() a 5 second timeout before
giving up and moving on?
Here is my function:
function getFeed($remote) {
if (!$xml = simplexml_load_file($remote)) {
print "Feed unavailable";
return;
}
print "<ul>\n";
foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) {
$cleaned = str_replace("&", "&", $item->link);
print "<li><a href='$cleaned'>$item->title</a></li>\n";
}
print "</ul>\n";
}
PHP 5.1.2 on Linux.
thanks,
-d
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