Php wait 5 seconds before executing an action

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I have a  php script that I use for creating the list of my products  I am on shared hosting  so I can t do a lot of queries otherwise I get a blank page   This is how I use my script now   script php start 0 amp end 500 amp indexOfFile 0  - gt  gt  make a product0 txt file with first 500 products  script php start 501 amp end 1000 amp indexOfFile 1 - gt  gt  product1 txt file with another 500 products  script php start 1001 amp end 1500 amp indexOfFile 2 - gt  gt  product2 txt file with last 500 products   How can I modify the script so it will make all these files automatically  so that I don t have to change each time the link manually   I would like to click a button which will do this   make the product0 txt file with the first 500 products  wait 5 seconds  make the product1 txt file with with another 500 products  wait 5 seconds  make the product2 txt file with the last 500 products

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use   sleep NUMBER OF SECONDS

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or   usleep NUMBER OF MICRO SECONDS

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i use this        i   1       last time     SERVER  REQUEST TIME        while  i  gt  0            total     SERVER  REQUEST TIME   -  last time          if  total  gt   2                  Code Here              i   -1                    you can use   function WaitForSec  sec        i   1       last time     SERVER  REQUEST TIME        while  i  gt  0            total     SERVER  REQUEST TIME   -  last time          if  total  gt   2               return 1               i   -1                      and run code     WaitForSec your sec     Example     WaitForSec 5     OR  you can use sleep   Example     sleep 5

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before starting your actions  use    sleep 5

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I am on shared hosting  so I can t do a lot of queries otherwise I get a blank page    That sounds very peculiar  I ve got the cheapest PHP hosting package I could find for my last project - and it does not behave like this  I would not pay for a service which did  Indeed  I m stumped to even know how I could configure a server to replicate this behaviour   Regardless of why it behaves this way  adding a sleep in the middle of the script cannot resolve the problem   Since  presumably  you control your product catalog  new products should be relatively infrequent  or are you trying to get stock reports    If you control when you change the data  why run the scripts automatically  Or do you mean that you already have these URLs and you get the expected files when you run them one at a time

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In https   www php net manual es function usleep php   lt  php    Wait 2 seconds usleep 2000000       if you need 5 seconds usleep 5000000     gt

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In Jan2018 the only solution worked for me    lt  php  if  ob get level      0  ob start    for   i   0   i lt 10   i          echo   lt br gt  Line to show        echo str pad    4096    n            ob flush        flush        sleep 2      echo  Done     ob end flush

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