Re: File and socket handles

On Saturday 02 December 2000 19:08, you wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Robin Gilks wrote: > > Greetings all > > > > I've scanned the list archives but not found anything that relates to my > > problem with socket handles. > > > > I want to open a socket connection from one frame (script) and transmit > > data to the user from that socket - no problem there, all working fine > > using either fsockopen or pfsockopen. > You can't. The socket (and in fact, any PHP resource except a persistent DB > connection) is closed once the first script stops running. Thanks for that - looks like I'll have to do the output in a loop and scan for input in the same loop & use the input script to transfer the data across via Mysql or similar... Cheers -- Robin Internet: g8ecj@abmdata.demon.co.uk http://www.gb7ipd.freeserve.co.uk/ Anorak mode = Shack: (+44) 1628 533311 Fax: (+44) 1628 850165 Club pages (g4xyw modem etc) at http://www.tvipug.org