Delay execution of the current script for 5 seconds (5000000 microseconds) in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to delay execution of the current script for 5 seconds (5000000 microseconds).

Example

  //from  w  ww . j ava 2 s .  c o m
<?php
   echo date('h:i:s') . "<br>";
   
   //sleep for 5 seconds
   usleep(5000000);
   
   //start again
   echo date('h:i:s');
?>

The code above generates the following result.