socket_create_listen()

socket_create_listen - Opens a socket on port to accept connections

Syntax

resource socket_create_listen (int $port, int $backlog)

Arguments

• port - The port on which to listen on all interfaces.
• backlog - The backlog parameter defines the maximum length the queue of pending connections may grow to. SOMAXCONN may be passed as backlog parameter, see socket_listen() for more information.

Description

socket_create_listen() creates a new socket resource of type AF_INET listening on alllocal interfaces on the given port waiting for new connections.

Version

PHP 4.1.0, 5

Return value

socket_create_listen() returns a new socket resource on success or FALSE on error. The error code can be retrieved with socket_last_error(). This code may be passed to socket_strerror() to get a textual explanation of the error.