php until,PHP: time_sleep_until - Manual

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.

* 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

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 );

}

*/functionsleep_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 fineif ($time_to_target<=$min_sleep)

{// If required, sleep for a bit anywaysleep($min_sleep);

}

else

{// Sleep for the number of seconds until the target timesleep($time_to_target);

}

}?>