Re: Non-blocking sockets

Jochem Maas wrote: > Eric wrote: >> Stut wrote: >>> Eric wrote: >>>> When I create a socket/stream that connects to a news sever and try >>>> to recv data from the socket when there is nothing there (Like if the >>>> server sends one line and I call recv twice) the socket freezes. I >>>> assume this is because using socket_create or fsockopen creates a >>>> blocking TCP/Stream socket by default. When I call >>>> socket_set_nonblock() and the socket_connect I get "A non-blocking >>>> operation could not be completed immediately". Could someone show me >>>> exactly how to create a non-blocking TCP/Stream socket? Thanks in >>>> advance. >>> I may be wrong but I think you need to set the socket non-blocking >>> after the connect. You cannot do a non-blocking connect. >>> >>> -Stut >> Then the socket recv doesnt work. Gives me "Unable read from socket". >> >> $socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP); >> socket_connect($socket,"news.csh.rit.edu",119); >> socket_set_nonblock($socket); >> socket_recv($socket,$buf,1024,0); >> echo $buf; > > I *think* you need to be looking here: > > http://php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php I would actually suggest going a bit higher level and using stream_socket_client() instead. Using a stream is much more flexible. See the manual page for the function for some examples. -Rasmus