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time_sleep_until

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

time_sleep_until Make the script sleep until the specified time

Descrizione

time_sleep_until(float $timestamp): bool

Makes the script sleep until the specified timestamp.

Elenco dei parametri

timestamp

The timestamp when the script should wake.

Valori restituiti

Restituisce true in caso di successo, false in caso di fallimento.

Errori/Eccezioni

If the specified timestamp is in the past, this function will generate a E_WARNING.

Esempi

Example #1 A time_sleep_until() example

<?php

//returns false and generates a warning
var_dump(time_sleep_until(time()-1));

// may only work on faster computers, will sleep up to 0.2 seconds
var_dump(time_sleep_until(microtime(true)+0.2));

?>

Note

Nota: All signals will be delivered after the script wakes up.

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purdue at nc dot rr dot com
13 years ago
At least on my Windows machine, the time_sleep_until function appears to calculate the number of microseconds between now and the sleep-until timestamp, and it appears to use unsigned 32-bit math in this calculation. This roundoff leads to a maximum sleep time of just under 4295 seconds (1 hour, 11 minutes, 35 seconds). To get longer sleep times, while still using time_sleep_until to minimize processor overhead, the following loop may be some help to you:

<?php

$sleepuntil
= strtotime("tuesday 3pm");

while (
time() < $sleepuntil)
time_sleep_until($sleepuntil);

// proceed with dated processing

?>

Of course, one could use something like "cron" instead, to avoid the script doing the extended sleep. Also note that time_nanosleep appears to do similar math, but it is somewhat more intuitive that the seconds parameter has an upper limit on what it can be. Still, both functions might report a warning when waking up prematurely due to roundoff.
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rowan dot collins at cwtdigital dot com
12 years ago
Not realising that this function existed, I wrote something similar, but it has the additional facility to specify a minimum pause even if the target time has already been reached, for instance in a processor-intensive loop.

It's in seconds rather than microseconds (it's intended for heavy-duty CLI scripts), but that could easily be changed by using microtime(true) and usleep if greater granularity was required.

<?php
/**
* Pause processing until the specified time, to avoid hammering a DB or service
*
* @param int $target_time Timestamp
* @param int $min_sleep Always sleep for a minimum number of seconds,
* even if the target timestamp has already passed.
* Default 0, meaning only sleep until the target timestamp is reached.
*
* @example <code>
while ( ! $finished )
{
$minimum_start_of_next_loop = time() + $min_secs_per_loop;

# DO STUFF THAT MAY OR MAY NOT TAKE VERY LONG

sleep_until( $minimum_start_of_next_loop, $min_pause_between_loops );
}
</code>
*/
function sleep_until($target_time, $min_sleep = 0)
{
$time_now = time();

$time_to_target = $target_time - $time_now;

// If we've already reached the target time, that's fine
if ( $time_to_target <= $min_sleep )
{
// If required, sleep for a bit anyway
sleep( $min_sleep );
}
else
{
// Sleep for the number of seconds until the target time
sleep( $time_to_target );
}
}
?>
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divinity76 at gmail dot com
5 years ago
if you for some reason need a constant-time implementation of realpath(), try

<?php

function realpath_constant_time(string $path, float $target_seconds, bool &$constant_time_success = null){
$start_time=microtime(true);
$ret=realpath($path);
$constant_time_success = @time_sleep_until($start_time+$target_seconds);
return
$ret;
}
?>

for example, a realtime that always uses exactly 1 millisecond (should be more than enough for SSD-based servers, perhaps rotating harddrive based servers may need something closer to 10 milliseconds, i don't know):

<?php
realpath_constant_time
("/path/to/../to/file.txt",0.001,$constant_time_success);
?>

and you can use $constant_time_success to see if you needed more time (and thus failed to do realpath() in constant-time), or if you succeeded.
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