Re: Undocumented Socket functions?

Rick Hodger wrote:

I'm not honestly sure if it'd be possible. Normally you would have a daemon running that listens for incoming connections and then spawns another process for each connection. Then the daemon goes back to listening. As far as I know, PHP doesn't have any sort of fork() or process spawning type commands.

It should be entirely possible to manage multiple connections to a socket using the alternative to forking, select(). I don't know enough about select() and its corresponding functions, but they are there and they should allow the ability to step through and deal with each connection without ever forking a new process. Those functions are part of the Socket extension to PHP, but they are undocumented. I would be very happy to see an example of their usage in PHP (as the C examples are leaving me quite baffled). --

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