how to call a function in PHP after 10 seconds of the page load (Not using HTML)

Question

Is there any way to call a function 10 seconds after the page load in PHP. (Not using HTML.)

Answer 1

If you really must do it within the same PHP script, the cleanest way would be a fork.

Or if that's not possible, here's a really bad hackish way of doing it:

If you're doing this to output stuff to the user after a delay, the above can be made to work but it's a really ugly way of doing it. Just use AJAX instead.