Question

I wanted to implement Comet in PHP and came across this page:

http://www.zeitoun.net/articles/comet_and_php/start

The second method explained in the article works fine for me. In the backend php file, the loop seems to be infinite:

// infinite loop until the data file is not modified
  $lastmodif    = isset($_GET['timestamp']) ? $_GET['timestamp'] : 0;
  $currentmodif = filemtime($filename);
  while ($currentmodif <= $lastmodif) // check if the data file has been modified
  {
    usleep(10000); // sleep 10ms to unload the CPU
    clearstatcache();
    $currentmodif = filemtime($filename);
  }

When the client leaves the page, how to tell the server to stop processing the loop? Otherwise I fear that the loop is going to go on and on on the server until something is modified.

Answer 1

You need to check the connection_status function.