PHP Sockets Help

[chrisvaughanuk]

Hi all,

I'm just rewriting a couple of my PHP scripts and am trying to make use of 'socket_set_option($socket, IPPROTO_TCP,TCP_NODELAY,1)' (set just before socket_create()) for packet management. I'm not the greatest programmer in the world so does anyone have any idea why it doesn't seem to work and why I'm getting these messages:

PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant IPPROTO_TCP - assumed 'IPPROTO_TCP'
PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant TCP_NODELAY - assumed 'TCP_NODELAY'

With the very few examples that I have found, there seems to be nothing wrong with my use of socket_set_option so I just wondered if anyone had any ideas about it?

Thanks!

Chris

 

[aZooZa]

Try this: http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

 

[chrisvaughanuk]

Thanks Dale but I'm just switching from fsockopen to this set of functions http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.sockets.php. Hopefully this one will give me better performance (and if not, I want to give it a go anyway!).

 

[davedevelopment]

I think you'll need 5.3 for TCP_NODELAY

 

[chrisvaughanuk]

Thanks Dave but I'm on 5.3.2. I've just noticed that 5.3.3 was released two days ago - so I'll give that a try. Maybe it's a bug in 5.3.2.

 

[chrisvaughanuk]

Nope, that didn't do the trick either. It's dodgy coding and not a bug then! At least I'm up to date with PHP now though!

 

[tifosi]

You do have sockets compiled into your php don't you? Most hosts do, but better to check! You''ll need a quick php page with phpinfo() or php -v from command line

 

[chrisvaughanuk]

Again thanks for the suggestion. I do have sockets set, yes. Sockets work fine; it's just the socket_set_option function that doesn't.