PHP function sleep()

Availability in PHP 4.0

Script sleep.

Parameters

Parameter	Data type	Default value	Note
$seconds	int	not	How long to sleep in seconds.

Return values

int

Returns zero (0) if correct, or false if incorrect.

If the sleep was artificially interrupted, it returns the number of seconds missing until the end of the sleep.

echo 'Hello!'; // Printed immediately
sleep(3); // Script will be paused for 3 seconds
echo 'How are you?'; // Printed after 3 seconds

Other resources

Official documentation of the sleep function