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

You can also do in this way:

function simplexml_load_file_from_url($url, $timeout = 20){

  $context = array('http' => array('timeout' => (int)$timeout));

  $data = file_get_contents($url, false, stream_context_create($context));

  if(!$data){
    trigger_error('Cannot load data from url: ' . $url, E_USER_NOTICE);
    return false;
  }

  return simplexml_load_string($data);
}