Re: PHP sockets enabled but socket_create() gives an error call to undefined function

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, crrrrrrr errrrrrr <r.suyash@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to create a socket connection from a Solaris machine to a Red > Hat machine  to get the PATH in Red Hat machine remotely on Solaris machine > and display it to the user. > > We have a PHP 5.1.6 installation on a Linux server (Apache) and PHP 5.2.6.. > on a Unix(Solaris) server(Apache) . The PHP version on Solaris is compiled > with --enable sockets and phpinfo() displays that the sockets are enabled.. > In spite of this we get the following error when using this piece of code > from the Solaris machine. > > > The error: > > PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function socket_create() in /XXX/ > > 5server.php<http://cad.njit.edu/u/d/x/dx8/public_html/clunk/swsearch5server.php> > on > line 21 > > The code; > > <?php > > set_time_limit(0); > > //ip of the server > $addr = 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'; > > //port of the server > $port = 2xxx; > > //create a socket > $sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);  /* This is line no 21 > in the code. i have ommitted a few header comments */ > > //bind this socket with the above ip and port > $ret = socket_bind($sock, $addr, $port); > > do { >    $ret = socket_listen($sock, 10); >    $msgSock = socket_accept($sock); >    $buf = socket_read($msgSock, 1024); > > > Please let me know if you need any further details I might have missed. > > Thank you. > > Suyash Ramineni > check phpinfo() to see if the sockets have been activated in the ini file. -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat