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# fsockopen

fsockopen -- Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection.

## Description

`int fsockopen`(string hostname, int port, int [errno], string [errstr], double [timeout]);

Initiates a stream connection in the Internet (AF_INET) or Unix (AF_UNIX) domain. For the Internet domain, it will open a TCP socket connection to `hostname` on port `port`. For the Unix domain, `hostname` will be used as the path to the socket, `port` must be set to 0 in this case. The optional `timeout` can be used to set a timeout in seconds for the connect system call.

fsockopen() returns a file pointer which may be used together with the other file functions (such as fgets(), fgetss(), fputs(), fclose(), feof()).

If the call fails, it will return false and if the optional `errno` and `errstr` arguments are present they will be set to indicate the actual system level error that occurred on the system-level connect() call. If the returned errno is 0 and the function returned false, it is an indication that the error occurred before the connect() call. This is most likely due to a problem initializing the socket. Note that the errno and errstr arguments must be passed by reference.

Depending on the environment, the Unix domain or the optional connect timeout may not be available.

The socket will by default be opened in blocking mode. You can switch it to non-blocking mode by using set_socket_blocking().

Example 1. fsockopen example

      1
      2 $fp = fsockopen("www.php.net", 80, &$errno, &$errstr, 30);
      3 if(!$fp) {
      4 	echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n";
      5 } else {
      6 	fputs($fp,"GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n");
      7 	while(!feof($fp)) {
      8 		echo fgets($fp,128);
      9 	}
     10 	fclose($fp);
     11 }
     12

See also: pfsockopen()

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