How to use sleep and usleep function in PHP

PHP tutorial, explained to use sleep and usleep function in PHP. Sleep is very common method in every language. How sleep function works we need to understand.

use sleep and usleep function in PHP

Sleep function delays the program execution for the given number of seconds.
Usleep delays program execution for the given number of micro seconds.

Following is the php example with sleep function

01&lt;?php
02echo date('h:i:s') . &quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;;
03 
04//stop execution for 30 seconds
05sleep(30);
06 
07//start again
08echo date('h:i:s');
09 
10?&amp;gt;

Following is the php example with usleep function

1<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1"-->php
2echo date('h:i:s') . &quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;;
3 
4//stop execution for 30 seconds
5usleep(30000000);
6 
7//start again
8echo date('h:i:s');
9?>

How to use sleep and usleep function in PHP

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