PHP UNIX socket XAMPP

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I am using XAMPP v3.2.1 with PHP 5.5 on Windows 7 Professional. Everything should be OK, but this piece of code just doesn't wants to work.

protected function _get_socket()
{
    if (($sock = @socket_create(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) === FALSE) {
        throw new VlaChatSe('socket_create', socket_last_error());
    }
    return $sock;
}

Whatever I do, the exception gets thrown. I've read that for UNIX sockets I need the IP protocol (0), although I tried TCP and UDP too. I tried SOCK_DGRAM instead of SOCK_STREAM and no luck so far, I also tried to reinstall XAMPP with php 5.4 version - still no luck. My options are exhausted, so I thought that you can help me... However I suppose that UNIX sockets does not work on Windows, because similar code worked fine in *nix environment.

Joni · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-19 20:33:23Z

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Windows doesn't implement Unix domain sockets so you'll have to use an alternative. The closest equivalent is named pipes, but I don't know to use them from PHP. A workable alternative could be TCP sockets bound to the loopback interface, though they are associated with a port number and not a file name.

edited Jul 19, 2013 at 20:33

answered Jul 19, 2013 at 20:16

Joni

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core1024 Over a year ago

Is this documented anywhere?

Joni Over a year ago

I can't find the definitive list of address and protocol families that winsock supports so I have no proof of there not being support, but if windows did have Unix domain sockets it would be well known and it should be documented here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/… It's hard to prove a negative...

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