accessing sockets opened by other scripts

[d0m1n1c]

Hmmmm this is hard to phrase but i'll try my best.

Say one php script connects to a port on another pc (im working through the CLI here.) Would it be possible for another php script to read and write tot he socket? if so, how?

I'm not 100% sure about how sockets are defined. because if a socket is a numerical value, would it be possible to open a socket in script 1, write the socket number to a text file, then script 2 reads the text file to get the socket number?

Thanks

Dom

[bpat1434]

Or you could just [man]include/man or [man]require/man script one in script two and reference the socket resource variable.

Your text-file implementation wouldn't work because [man]socket_create/man and [man]fsockopen/man both return resources. So writing a resource to a text file, and reading it won't work. Plus, once the first script stops executing, the socket is closed.