PHP to read a string from socket

Question

I bind with a socket as follows:

<?
// set some variables
$host = "x.x.x.x";
$port = 1234;
// don't timeout!
set_time_limit(0);
// create socket
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die("Could not create
socket\n");
// bind socket to port
$result = socket_bind($socket, $host, $port) or die("Could not bind to
socket\n");
?>

Now how do I read strings coming from the socket and store it in a variable? The socket has collection of strings in the following format: 12;3p6;4p

where p is the terminating character for each set of a;b values Thank you

swordfish · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-03 04:40:35Z

3

You should use

socket_read()

to read the incoming data from the socket. Here is a nice tutorial on the socket programming in php.

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Socket-Programming-With-PHP/

On a sidenote, PHP is not a very suitable language for socket programming and use it only if its absolutely necessary.

answered Nov 3, 2011 at 4:40

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user1017072 Over a year ago

will socket_read also help me to read a live stream data from socket server? Thanks

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