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Storing Socket in $_SESSION variable

It is not possible to store a socket connection in a session variable in order to keep it open. Instead, use the PHP function pfsockopen to open a socket connection and leave it opened between web requests. This function only allow the connection to be persistent when you are not using CGI mode or running the script as a CLI script.

However, the pfsockopen function does not allow you to keep track of the socket on a per user basis. It will simply return you the one that was opened previously.

  • By roychri at Sep 7 2007 - 19:34

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