PHP Network and Sockets

Working with low-level sockets can be a painful task in PHP. Fortunately, PHP offers a nice library of socket handling functions to make your life easier. If you do a lot of network programming in PHP, you will want to check out this three-part series, which starts with the basics and takes you through more advanced approaches. This article is the first one in the series.

Welcome to the first of three tutorials in a series that covers network programming in PHP. In this article you will learn how to use some useful PHP networking functions that will help you perform a variety of common networking tasks. To that end, you will build a simple networking query application in PHP 5.

Are you interested in learning how to manipulate low-level sockets in PHP? Your search has finished. This is the second part of the series Handling sockets in PHP, and hopefully you ll find in it valuable material regarding the creation and manipulation of sockets with PHP, in conjunction with numerous illustrative hands-on examples that will help you build socket servers in a few easy steps.

Do you think that programming sockets with PHP is really hard work? Not at all. If you re still not convinced, read this final part of the series Handling sockets with PHP. In three parts, this series shows how to work with low-level sockets in PHP. It introduces some of the typical tasks, such as creating sockets, as well as reading and writing socket data.

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