Question

I want to find out the time required by a php file to open(download) inside a Perl script. I want to use wget here.

Answer 1

You could use microtime to calculate the time:

/**
 * Simple function to replicate PHP 5 behaviour
 */
function microtime_float()
{
    list($usec, $sec) = explode(" ", microtime());
    return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
}

$time_start = microtime_float();

// do stuff

$time_end = microtime_float();
$time = $time_end - $time_start;

echo "Execution time was $time seconds\n";