Question

Hezy, Im trying to use socket programming, I need a background service. I tried a simple example:

 if (($sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP)) === false) {
     echo "socket_create() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error()) . "\n";

if I try it in the browsers, it works…
but with php.exe on command line, it doesnt work… it says socket_create() doesn’t exists. But sockets are enabled. Now what? I dont have another php.ini in Windows directory

Answer 1

The command line php.exe might use another php.ini than the php module that’s used by Apache, so the sockets extension isn’t loaded for command line.

Try executing php.exe -i to see which php.ini it’s using, and enable the appropriate extension in there.