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osama.khatib
osama.khatib

Reputation: 51

DOMDocument::load() Timeout

I am using DOMDocument::load() to load a XML file from a URL:

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load("http://url_of_some_xml_file");

Is there a way to interrupt or stop loading after defined timeout if the URL took more than X seconds to load?

If this is not possible to be done using DOMDocument::load(), is there any other way to set a timeout for loading XML from a URL?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1736

Answers (2)

Adam Franco
Adam Franco

Reputation: 85838

In addition to @thw 's excellent answer of setting the timout option by creating a new steam context, I found that the default stream context uses the php.ini setting for default_socket_timeout as its timeout.

Changing your php.ini like this:

; Increase from the default of 60 seconds
default_socket_timeout = 120

can be an easy way to increase the timeout without modifying the application code, though this will also affect other stream contexts that use sockets as well.

Upvotes: 1

ThW
ThW

Reputation: 19502

You can use libxml_set_streams_context to configure the behavior. The HTTP stream wrapper options include timeout.

$options = [
  'http' => [
    'method' => 'GET',
    'timeout' => '5'
  ]
];
$context = stream_context_create($options);
libxml_set_streams_context($context);

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load("http://url_of_some_xml_file");

Upvotes: 3

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