Question

How to open PHP socket onto some URL? (like http://www.ex.com:8080/mySock/)

I want to send user to a user Chart Room 1 if ho goes to http://www.ex.com:8080/mySock/Chart1 and http://www.ex.com:8080/mySock/Chart2 to some other chart room if he goes into another (live php multy useres chart on sockets (Flash backend))

Answer 1

You can use:

$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_connect($socket, gethostbyname("www.ex.com"), 8080);

but are you sure you actually want a direct socket? If you clarify what you’re actually doing, odds are PHP has some better way to accomplish it