What are the available PHP extensions for TCP Socket Networking?

Question

Hi,

I'm looking for a PHP extension that allows me to connect, bind/listen, send, and receive data on a TCP socket.

There is a PEAR package Net_Socket:

http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket

But this would require PEAR to be installed which we wouldn't want to do as this increases memory consumption.

Is there an available purely C extension of this?

Thanks, Kenneth

Answer 1

a few options:

• PHP Sockets (available in most builds)
• PHP Streams (5+)