Using SSL with PHP5's socket_* functions

Hello, all - I am a bit new to PHP, especially sockets, so what I am asking may very well be comparing apples to oranges. I am writing a function to interact with an SSL server, but I see no way of how I can communicate over SSL. I expected to be able to enter an address such as https://10.10.10.10 into socket_connect(), but it fails. Maybe because this isn't even a supported/allowed argument. Is it possible to use SSL with any of the socket_* functions in PHP5? Again, I feel like a real tool asking this. I'm just trying to understand as best I can. Thanks for the time -dant