Re: Using Network functions.

Hi!

2. What does streams has to do with this networking? Can it be done using streams?

Yes, it can. Take the following simple, incomplete example without much error handling as a starting point: // in the header #include "php_streams.h" // PHP function: PHP_FUNCTION(simplehttp_fetch) { php_stream *stream; struct timeval tv; int err; char *errstr; char buf[8192]; tv.tv_sec = 30; tv.tv_usec = 0; stream = php_stream_xport_create("tcp://www.google.com:80",

              sizeof("tcp://www.google.com:80")-1,
               ENFORCE_SAFE_MODE | REPORT_ERRORS,
               TREAM_XPORT_CLIENT | STREAM_XPORT_CONNECT,
               NULL, &tv, NULL, &errstr, &err);

if (stream == NULL) {

    php_error(E_WARNING TSRMLS_CC,
      "unable to connect to tcp://www.google.com:80: %s",
      errstr == NULL ? "unknown error" : errstr);
    RETURN_NULL();

} php_stream_write(stream,

     "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n\r\n",
     sizeof("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n\r\n")-1);

memset(buf, 0, 8192); php_stream_read(stream, buf, 8191); php_stream_close(stream); RETURN_STRING(buf, 1); } Basically, you want to look at main/php_streams.h and main/streams/php_stream_transport.h in the PHP source code. Userland fsockopen() essentially maps to php_stream_xport_create() and userland fread, fwrite, close, etc. essentially map to php_stream_read(), php_stream_write, php_stream_close, etc. Regards, Christian