Re: newbie:changing variable to type resource

> I am new to PHP, stuck with a problem and need your help. > > I would like to change a variable to type resource. > I searched in php.net and in google but did not find anything helpful. > > Now , why I would like to do that... > > I am writing a socket application which will accept connection from > browser,receive data and write the data sent by browser into another > open socket.Receive data from the open socket and write it back to the > browser. > > When there are more than one client(browser) connecting to my program > ,I am saving the connection information (socket ID)for browser > connections in a plain text file. > > I intend to retrive the socket ID information and do a > socket_write(..) with socket ID as the first parameter, but I am > getting an error that I cant convert any type to a resource type. Is > there any workaround ?? > > Is it going to help me if I use session information ? > > I am not using apache. > > I may be wrongly designing the program. The design just maybe might be fine in theory, but in practice... A socket connection can't be shared across PHP instances, I don't think. Certainly not by writing the resource into a text file. You *MIGHT* be able to write the resource into shared memory http://php.net/shmop but I doubt that will work at all, and even if it does, having two programs reading/writing the same socket resource at one time sounds like a recipie for disaster. Why do you want to share this socket across two PHP programs? What exactly are you doing? I suspect that the design is not right, even in theory, but can't be sure. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm