Hi, While writing an app that regularly checks an oracle database for new entries I run into problems when the database server suddenly goes offline (the network connection can't be trusted).
The call right after such a connection loss just hangs the application. Here is a little example to illustrate ... <? ob_implicit_flush(); $cnn = OCILogon( 'scot', 'tiger' ); function valid_cnn( &$cnn ) { return ( trim( OCIServerVersion($cnn) ) != '' ); } while( true ) { print valid_cnn( $cnn ) ? "OK\n" : "DOWN\n"; sleep(1); } ?> Running it results in a nice collection of "OK"'s and a hangup when I disconnect the network. Plugging the network back in resumes the series of "OK"'s after a while ... But the desired behaviour ( "DOWN" ) won't appear. Did anyone of you encountered a similar situation ? How did you solve this ? ... Any ideas are good, since I'm a bit stuck and any lead might help to a probably very simple solution (that I just can see rigth now) Thanks in advance, Christophe VG -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]