socket_create_listen

socket_create_listen

(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)

socket_create_listenOpens a socket on port to accept connections

Description

resource socket_create_listen ( int $port [, int $backlog = 128 ] )

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

This function is meant to ease the task of creating a new socket which only listens to accept new connections.