microtime

Find out for how long the script was running for in seconds?

I have a script which runs in a 'while' cycle. I need to determine for how long the script was running for and if it is over 10 seconds terminate it. The code I wrote returns weird decimal values (one second it might be '5.342...' and other it might be '903.322...'). Can someone tell me how can I achieve that? $timer = microtime(false);...

PHP profiling with microtime(): Negative time?

For a very simple profiling I use microtime() like this: $now = microtime(); for (...) { // do something echo microtime() - $now; $now = microtime(); } Now, the output of the echo line seems completely random, that is, I expected fluctuations, but I don't expected negative numbers showing up. However, a typical result con...

PHP microtime()

Hello! Here is my code : $time=microtime(); $len=strlen($time); echo $time; echo"<br>".$len."<br>"; $micro; $i=0; while($time{$i}!=" ") { $micro{i}=$time{i}; echo $micro{i}; $i=$i+1; } ?> Now the output,i'm getting is 0000000000(that is $micro) . Here i'm trying to get the microseconds part of the output. Is there anything wro...