Socket Functions

Table of Contents

• socket_accept — Accepts a connection on a socket
• socket_bind — Binds a name to a socket
• socket_clear_error — Clears the error on the socket or the last error code
• socket_close — Closes a socket resource
• socket_cmsg_space — Calculate message buffer size
• socket_connect — Initiates a connection on a socket
• socket_create_listen — Opens a socket on port to accept connections
• socket_create_pair — Creates a pair of indistinguishable sockets and stores them in an array
• socket_create — Create a socket (endpoint for communication)
• socket_get_option — Gets socket options for the socket
• socket_getopt — Alias of socket_get_option
• socket_getpeername — Queries the remote side of the given socket which may either result in host/port or in a Unix filesystem path, dependent on its type
• socket_getsockname — Queries the local side of the given socket which may either result in host/port or in a Unix filesystem path, dependent on its type
• socket_import_stream — Import a stream
• socket_last_error — Returns the last error on the socket
• socket_listen — Listens for a connection on a socket
• socket_read — Reads a maximum of length bytes from a socket
• socket_recv — Receives data from a connected socket
• socket_recvfrom — Receives data from a socket whether or not it is connection-oriented
• socket_recvmsg — Read a message
• socket_select — Runs the select() system call on the given arrays of sockets with a specified timeout
• socket_send — Sends data to a connected socket
• socket_sendmsg — Send a message
• socket_sendto — Sends a message to a socket, whether it is connected or not
• socket_set_block — Sets blocking mode on a socket resource
• socket_set_nonblock — Sets nonblocking mode for file descriptor fd
• socket_set_option — Sets socket options for the socket
• socket_setopt — Alias of socket_set_option
• socket_shutdown — Shuts down a socket for receiving, sending, or both
• socket_strerror — Return a string describing a socket error
• socket_write — Write to a socket