Using simplexml_load_file to pull from tumblr - timing out every time

Question

My site is taking ~45 seconds to load. It\'s because I\'m pulling in some XML from tumblr, but I can\'t figure out if this is my server\'s fault, tumblr\'s fault, or some other

Answer 1

ok in this case i can suggest you use cUrl

This way youu can set a timeout and if the page doesnt respond in five seconds you can move on. Documentation

            $url = "http://blog.yaytalent.com/api/read?type=post&start=1&num=2";
            $ch = curl_init(); 
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE); 
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, FALSE); 
            curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,5); // TIME OUT is 5 seconds
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); 
            $response = curl_exec($ch); 
            $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); 
            curl_close($ch); 

I hope that works for you and goodluck in your learning

UPDATE:

now you can use your simple xml like this:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);