Does file get contents have a timeout setting

Question

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

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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

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For prototyping  using curl from the shell with the -m parameter allow to pass milliseconds  and will work in both cases  either the connection didn t initiate  error 404  500  bad url  or the whole data wasn t retrieved in full in the allowed time range  the timeout is always effective  Php won t ever hang out  Simply don t pass unsanitized user data in the shell call  system  quot curl -m 50 -X GET  https   api kraken com 0 public OHLC pair LTCUSDT amp interval 60  -H   accept  application json   gt  data json quot       This data had been refreshed in less than 50ms var dump json decode file get contents  quot data json quot   true

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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   gt      array           timeout    gt  1200     1200 Seconds is 20 Minutes            echo file get contents  http   example com    false   ctx

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For me work when i change my php ini in my host     Default timeout for socket based streams  seconds  default socket timeout   300

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Yes  By passing a stream context in the third parameter    Here with a timeout of 1s   file get contents  https   abcedef com   0  stream context create   http   gt   timeout   gt 1        Source in comment section of https   www php net manual en function file-get-contents php  HTTP context options   method header user agent content request fulluri follow location max redirects protocol version timeout   Other contexts  https   www php net manual en context php

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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

[php] Does file_get_contents() have a timeout setting?

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