Re: [PHP4BETA] Binary for UDP?

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, Ian Redden wrote: > Yes, it does work, however it is not "BINARY-SAFE". > > It should return binary info captured in a variable so I can plug that > into unpack and read my info then display it on the screen however I like. > I have already written a perl version and have it completed, unfortunately > the website that will use it, absolutely refuses to use PERL. :( > > Thanks, Ian. > > Working Example: > ---------------- > > <?php > $maxlen = 1024; > $default_host = "171.64.75.234"; > $default_port = "28001"; > $connection = fsockopen("udp://".$default_host, $default_port, &$errno, > &$errstr, 5); > > if(!$connection) { > echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n"; > } else { > $msgsend = "bah"; > fputs($connection, $msgsend); > $msgrecv = fgets($connection, $maxlen); > } > fclose($connection); > ?> Why not use fread() instead? -Andrei * The best source is the source code. *