note 11670 added to Socket functions

I have tried for weeks to figure out if there is a conclusion to a problem I have run into with PHP3 and even 4, The problem is this: I want to create a socket connection, once the connection is made, I want to reference a function inside of a DLL, sitting on the spcified port. I have done this with perl, but my boss want me to use PHP to do this. basically here is what i did with perl: PERL socket(conection stuff here) works fine $Command = "MYWEB,ValidatePassword,%form{'userid'},%form{'passid'}; now the MYWEB is the DLL, the ValidatePassword is the function inside the DLL that tells how to use the userid and passid to authenticate off of our codebase databases, Can I do something similiar in PHP or is he just stuck with what I did in Perl. Please email me at socraties@socraties.com http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php