socket_create_listen
Opens a socket on port to accept connections
Description
resource socket_create_listen
( int $port
[, int $backlog
= 128
] )
This function is meant to ease the task of creating a new socket which
only listens to accept new connections.
Parameters
-
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.
Return Values
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.
Notes
Note:
If you want to create a socket which only listens on a certain
interface you need to use socket_create,
socket_bind and socket_listen.
See Also
- socket_create
- socket_create_pair
- socket_bind
- socket_listen
- socket_last_error
- socket_strerror