Socket Create Error

[Dakkar]

I have a php script like this and when try to execute it its giving an error like this how can it be?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: socket_create() in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\asd\istatistik.php on line 16

this is my php script

<tr>
                  <td width="24%" valign="bottom" height="275">
                    <table border="0" width="101%">
                      <tr>
                        <td width="100%" colspan="3" style="border-style: 
groove; border-color: #DED1BC">
                          <p align="center"><font 
color="#DED1BC"><b>:-:&nbsp;
                          Istatistikler&nbsp; :-:<br>
                          </b></font></td>
                      </tr>
<tr><td width="24%" valign="bottom" height="150">
                    <table border="0" width="101%">

<?
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,SOL_TCP); //make the socket
if(@socket_connect($socket,'212.98.232.34',5631)) {
$x = "Aç?k";
} else {
$x = "Kapal?";
}
?>
                      <tr>
                        <td width="38%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC">Sunucu</font></td>

                    <td width="8%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC">:</font></td>

                    <td width="56%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC"><? echo $x; ?></font></td>

                  </tr>
<?

$fd = @fopen("http://212.98.232.34:5631/status.html","r");

while ($line=@fgets($fd,1000))
 {
$line15=($line + 20) ;
    $alltext.=$line15;
 }
@fclose ($fd);

?>


<tr>
                        <td width="38%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC">Oyunda</font></td>

                    <td width="8%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC">:</font></td>

                    <td width="56%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC"><? echo $alltext; ?></font></td>

                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td width="38%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC">Kay?tl?</font></td>

                    <td width="8%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC">:</font></td>

                    <td width="56%" align="left"><font color="#DED1BC">815</font></td>

                  </tr>
                </table>


<? include("hasan.php"); ?>

where is the problem and how can i fix it
Note:THe machine that i want to create socket and the machine this php code hosted is same.

[weekender]

i had this problem with my last host, and it turned out that they had disabled sockets, for security reasons. Are you hosted, or is it your server?