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

curl_setopt(**$s**,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,5);

Here should be $ch in reply by Ibu I think. But good example anyway! Thank you!

Answer 2

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);

Answer 3

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);
}