Hi,
Thursday, May 13, 2004, 6:57:14 AM, you wrote:
RF> Hi,
RF> I have this code (below) that waits for particular data to come over
RF> the socket ("ENX"), at which point it breaks out of the loop and does
RF> other things. Presently, it will loop forever, until it receives
RF> "ENX"�a good start�but I also need it to break-out if the loop runs
RF> longer than five seconds. This is where I'm having a problem. It seems
RF> that it is only reading once data comes over the socket, so it is stuck
RF> on that first 'while' line ("while(($buf =
RF> socket_read($socket,128,PHP_BINARY_READ)) !== false) {").
RF> $timer = time();
RF> while(($buf = socket_read($socket,128,PHP_BINARY_READ)) !== false) {
RF> $data .= $buf;
RF> $elapsed = time() - $timer;
RF> if(preg_match("/ENX/", $data)) {
RF> break;
RF> } elseif ($elapsed > 5) {
RF> echo "TOO LONG!\n";
RF> break;
RF> }
RF> }
RF> Maybe set non-blocking / blocking socket is the answer? Only problem is
RF> I can't find much [good] documentation describing what blocking and
RF> non-blocking sockets are good for, etc. Any ideas? Thanks.
RF> ...Rene
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Try doing this at the error point
} elseif ($elapsed > 5) {
echo "TOO LONG!\n";
break 2; //kill both loops
}
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regards,
Tom
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