If you are willing to do a rewrite, then have your main script start a fork, or child process. The child process would run your script while the parent would do nothing else but wait for the child. if the child times out the parent will know and you can then print out a error message.
See the following on how to implement forks (process controls). It is kind of confusing and could be fatal to your system load if done incorrectly. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
