note 87984 modified in sockets.installation by danbrown

Note that under windows you just need to uncomment the line ;extension=php_sockets.dll so that it looks like extension=php_sockets.dll (without the ; at the start) in your php.ini (in the directory c:\program files\PHP\php.ini) If that line isn't in there, you probably have a custom php install. In that case you need to add the line to php.ini and download the sockets dll. In order to get the php_sockets.dll: - Download the regular php zip file from http://www.php.net/downloads.php - Find the dll in the ext directory - Extract the php_sockets.dll to the ext directory of your install (probably at c:\program files\PHP\ext) --was-- Note that under windows you just need to uncomment the line ;extension=php_mysql.dll so that it looks like extension=php_mysql.dll (without the ; at the start) in your php.ini (in the directory c:\program files\PHP\php.ini) If that line isn't in there, you probably have a custom php install. In that case you need to add the line to php.ini and download the sockets dll. In order to get the php_sockets.dll: - Download the regular php zip file from http://www.php.net/downloads.php - Find the dll in the ext directory - Extract the php_sockets.dll to the ext directory of your install (probably at c:\program files\PHP\ext) http://php.net/manual/en/sockets.installation.php