Re: Other socket stuff

On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 11:05:09AM +0200, Stig Bakken wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > > Well, that would make things much more complicated. We basically would > > need to open up the whole POSIX magic box and provide a nice and clean > > interface to it (as far that is possible at all) from the PHP user > > level. > > > > So, initially, we have two options (complementary) > > > > (a) provide all the socket stuff to the end user (this could be extended > > later to the whole POSIX API) > > > (b) extend fsockopen to allow setting a timeout > > > > The later one could be done in reasonable time (in fact, I have code for > > connect_nonb C function here). > > > > The former one is even more appealing to me. Once we would have a > > complete POSIX module (thinking of Perl here), the end-user could do > > almost everything as he could do with regular C code (function-wise, > > speed is another issue). > > IMHO we should focus on (b) first, and implement (a) in PHP4. But if > someone is twisted enough to want to use select() in PHP3, by all means... > :-) b is already in :-) -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net