TCP Port listening

[Anon]

Hello there,

I have found PHP very practical programming language in all cases (not only in web) and I have some plans that make one server to our system with PHP. The server is not any "common" server (HTTP, PHP etc), just for our system.

Anyway, the problem is the TCP port listening. When I took a look over the manual, I couldn't find any remarks that PHP could also listen ports. Is there any way to listen ports?

The program should handle also multiple connections at the same time, but it is another problem then.

Cheers,
- Ville

[Anon]

Because PHP is scripted-ish, it can only query a port and not monitor it. Of course you can query constantly, but it would be better to set something up using inetd that would fire up your script when a connection is made, I think.

It's possible you're trying to use it too much in this case.

[Anon]

Actually, this feature was just added. I don't know how well it works, because I haven't tried it yet. The documentation is at: http://www.zend.com/manual/ref.sockets.php