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CVI. Socket Functions

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The socket extension implements a low-level interface to the socket communication functions based on the popular BSD sockets, providing the possibility to act as a socket server as well as a client.

For a more generic client-side socket interface, see stream_socket_client(), stream_socket_server(), fsockopen(), and pfsockopen().

When using these functions, it is important to remember that while many of them have identical names to their C counterparts, they often have different declarations. Please be sure to read the descriptions to avoid confusion.

Those unfamiliar with socket programming can find a lot of useful material in the appropriate Unix man pages, and there is a great deal of tutorial information on socket programming in C on the web, much of which can be applied, with slight modifications, to socket programming in PHP. The might be a good start.

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Instalace

The socket functions described here are part of an extension to PHP which must be enabled at compile time by giving the --enable-sockets option to configure.

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AF_UNIX (integer)

AF_INET (integer)

AF_INET6 (integer)

SOCK_STREAM (integer)

SOCK_DGRAM (integer)

SOCK_RAW (integer)

SOCK_SEQPACKET (integer)

SOCK_RDM (integer)

MSG_OOB (integer)

MSG_WAITALL (integer)

MSG_PEEK (integer)

MSG_DONTROUTE (integer)

SO_DEBUG (integer)

SO_REUSEADDR (integer)

SO_KEEPALIVE (integer)

SO_DONTROUTE (integer)

SO_LINGER (integer)

SO_BROADCAST (integer)

SO_OOBINLINE (integer)

SO_SNDBUF (integer)

SO_RCVBUF (integer)

SO_SNDLOWAT (integer)

SO_RCVLOWAT (integer)

SO_SNDTIMEO (integer)

SO_RCVTIMEO (integer)

SO_TYPE (integer)

SO_ERROR (integer)

SOL_SOCKET (integer)

PHP_NORMAL_READ (integer)

PHP_BINARY_READ (integer)

SOL_TCP (integer)

SOL_UDP (integer)

Socket Errors

The socket extension was written to provide a useable interface to the powerful BSD sockets. Care has been taken that the functions work equally well on Win32 and Unix implementations. Almost all of the sockets functions may fail under certain conditions and therefore emit an E_WARNING message describing the error. Sometimes this doesn't happen to the desire of the developer. For example the function socket_read() may suddenly emit an E_WARNING message because the connection broke unexpectedly. It's common to suppress the warning with the @-operator and catch the error code within the application with the socket_last_error() function. You may call the socket_strerror() function with this error code to retrieve a string describing the error. See their description for more information.

Pozn�mka: The E_WARNING messages generated by the socket extension are in English though the retrieved error message will appear depending on the current locale (LC_MESSAGES):
Warning - socket_bind() unable to bind address [98]: Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet

P��klady

P��klad 1. Socket example: Simple TCP/IP server

This example shows a simple talkback server. Change the address and port variables to suit your setup and execute. You may then connect to the server with a command similar to: telnet 192.168.1.53 10000 (where the address and port match your setup). Anything you type will then be output on the server side, and echoed back to you. To disconnect, enter 'quit'.

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL);

/* Allow the script to hang around waiting for connections. */
set_time_limit(0);

/* Turn on implicit output flushing so we see what we're getting
 * as it comes in. */
ob_implicit_flush();

$address = '192.168.1.53';
$port = 10000;

if ((
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP)) < 0) {
   echo
"socket_create() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($sock) . "\n";
}

if ((
$ret = socket_bind($sock, $address, $port)) < 0) {
   echo
"socket_bind() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($ret) . "\n";
}

if ((
$ret = socket_listen($sock, 5)) < 0) {
   echo
"socket_listen() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($ret) . "\n";
}

do {
   if ((
$msgsock = socket_accept($sock)) < 0) {
       echo
"socket_accept() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($msgsock) . "\n";
       break;
   }
  
/* Send instructions. */
  
$msg = "\nWelcome to the PHP Test Server. \n" .
      
"To quit, type 'quit'. To shut down the server type 'shutdown'.\n";
  
socket_write($msgsock, $msg, strlen($msg));

   do {
       if (
false === ($buf = socket_read($msgsock, 2048, PHP_NORMAL_READ))) {
           echo
"socket_read() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($ret) . "\n";
           break
2;
       }
       if (!
$buf = trim($buf)) {
           continue;
       }
       if (
$buf == 'quit') {
           break;
       }
       if (
$buf == 'shutdown') {
          
socket_close($msgsock);
           break
2;
       }
      
$talkback = "PHP: You said '$buf'.\n";
      
socket_write($msgsock, $talkback, strlen($talkback));
       echo
"$buf\n";
   } while (
true);
  
socket_close($msgsock);
} while (
true);

socket_close($sock);
?>

P��klad 2. Socket example: Simple TCP/IP client

This example shows a simple, one-shot HTTP client. It simply connects to a page, submits a HEAD request, echoes the reply, and exits.

<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL);

echo
"<h2>TCP/IP Connection</h2>\n";

/* Get the port for the WWW service. */
$service_port = getservbyname('www', 'tcp');

/* Get the IP address for the target host. */
$address = gethostbyname('www.example.com');

/* Create a TCP/IP socket. */
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
if (
$socket < 0) {
   echo
"socket_create() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($socket) . "\n";
} else {
   echo
"OK.\n";
}

echo
"Attempting to connect to '$address' on port '$service_port'...";
$result = socket_connect($socket, $address, $service_port);
if (
$result < 0) {
   echo
"socket_connect() failed.\nReason: ($result) " . socket_strerror($result) . "\n";
} else {
   echo
"OK.\n";
}

$in = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$in .= "Host: www.example.com\r\n";
$in .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
$out = '';

echo
"Sending HTTP HEAD request...";
socket_write($socket, $in, strlen($in));
echo
"OK.\n";

echo
"Reading response:\n\n";
while (
$out = socket_read($socket, 2048)) {
   echo
$out;
}

echo
"Closing socket...";
socket_close($socket);
echo
"OK.\n\n";
?>

Obsah
socket_accept -- Accepts a connection on a socket
socket_bind -- Binds a name to a socket
socket_clear_error -- Clears the error on the socket or the last error code
socket_close -- Closes a socket resource
socket_connect -- Initiates a connection on a socket
socket_create_listen -- Opens a socket on port to accept connections
socket_create_pair -- Creates a pair of indistinguishable sockets and stores them in an array.
socket_create -- Create a socket (endpoint for communication)
socket_get_option -- Gets socket options for the socket
socket_getpeername --  Queries the remote side of the given socket which may either result in host/port or in a Unix filesystem path, dependent on its type.
socket_getsockname --  Queries the local side of the given socket which may either result in host/port or in a Unix filesystem path, dependent on its type.
socket_iovec_add -- Adds a new vector to the scatter/gather array
socket_iovec_alloc --  Builds a 'struct iovec' for use with sendmsg, recvmsg, writev, and readv
socket_iovec_delete -- Deletes a vector from an array of vectors
socket_iovec_fetch -- Returns the data held in the iovec specified by iovec_id[iovec_position]
socket_iovec_free -- Frees the iovec specified by iovec_id
socket_iovec_set -- Sets the data held in iovec_id[iovec_position] to new_val
socket_last_error -- Returns the last error on the socket
socket_listen -- Listens for a connection on a socket
socket_read -- Reads a maximum of length bytes from a socket
socket_readv -- Reads from an fd, using the scatter-gather array defined by iovec_id
socket_recv -- Receives data from a connected socket
socket_recvfrom -- Receives data from a socket, connected or not
socket_recvmsg -- Used to receive messages on a socket, whether connection-oriented or not
socket_select --  Runs the select() system call on the given arrays of sockets with a specified timeout
socket_send -- Sends data to a connected socket
socket_sendmsg -- Sends a message to a socket, regardless of whether it is connection-oriented or not
socket_sendto -- Sends a message to a socket, whether it is connected or not
socket_set_block --  Sets blocking mode on a socket resource
socket_set_nonblock -- Sets nonblocking mode for file descriptor fd
socket_set_option -- Sets socket options for the socket
socket_shutdown -- Shuts down a socket for receiving, sending, or both.
socket_strerror -- Return a string describing a socket error
socket_write -- Write to a socket
socket_writev -- Writes to a file descriptor, fd, using the scatter-gather array defined by iovec_id


add a note add a note User Contributed Notes
Socket Functions
m dot hoppe at hyperspeed dot de
03-Sep-2004 01:36
Very good step-by-step tutorial for a network daemon is here:
[next]
[before] /psecom,id,484,nodeid,114.html

Sorry, I was forced to split this link. :-(
aidan at php dot net
18-Aug-2004 12:08
hexdump() is a fantastic function for "dumping" packets or binary output from servers. See the below link for more information.

Toppi at kacke dot de
18-Jun-2004 02:06
Here another socketclass which can handle the most importand things.


Here a little Chatserver based on this class.


Maybe its helpful :)

Toppi
KnoB
11-Jun-2004 12:35
A little example that shows how to implement a simple multi-client iterative server (without forking). Launch the server and connect multiple telnet clients on it. It's a basic chat program.

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL);

set_time_limit(0);
ob_implicit_flush();

$address = '127.0.0.1';
$port = 8888;

function
handle_client($allclient, $socket, $buf, $bytes) {
   foreach(
$allclient as $client) {
      
socket_write($client, "$socket wrote: $buf");
   }
}

if ((
$master = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP)) < 0) {
   echo
"socket_create() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($master) . "\n";
}

socket_set_option($master, SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR, 1);

if ((
$ret = socket_bind($master, $address, $port)) < 0) {
   echo
"socket_bind() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($ret) . "\n";
}

if ((
$ret = socket_listen($master, 5)) < 0) {
   echo
"socket_listen() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($ret) . "\n";
}

$read_sockets = array($master);

while (
true) {
  
$changed_sockets = $read_sockets;
  
$num_changed_sockets = socket_select($changed_sockets, $write = NULL, $except = NULL, NULL);
   foreach(
$changed_sockets as $socket) {
       if (
$socket == $master) {
           if ((
$client = socket_accept($master)) < 0) {
               echo
"socket_accept() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror($msgsock) . "\n";
               continue;
           } else {
              
array_push($read_sockets, $client);
           }
       } else {
          
$bytes = socket_recv($socket, $buffer, 2048, 0);
           if (
$bytes == 0) {
              
$index = array_search($socket, $read_sockets);
               unset(
$read_sockets[$index]);
              
socket_close($socket);
           } else {
              
$allclients = $read_sockets;
              
array_shift($allclients);    // remove master
              
handle_client($allclients, $socket, $buffer, $bytes);
           }
       }
      
   }
}

?>
noSanity
18-May-2004 02:40
I have searched long and hard for a ping script that does NOT use EXEC() or SYSTEM(). So far, I have found nothing, so I decided to write my own, which was a task to say the least.

First off, I would like to thank Khaless for their checksum function, converting it from C looked like a task in itself.

Here is the class I wrote
<?php

class Net_Ping
{
  var
$icmp_socket;
  var
$request;
  var
$request_len;
  var
$reply;
  var
$errstr;
  var
$time;
  var
$timer_start_time;
  function
Net_Ping()
  {
  
$this->icmp_socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 1);
  
socket_set_block($this->icmp_socket);
  }
 
  function
ip_checksum($data)
  {
     for(
$i=0;$i<strlen($data);$i += 2)
     {
         if(
$data[$i+1]) $bits = unpack('n*',$data[$i].$data[$i+1]);
         else
$bits = unpack('C*',$data[$i]);
        
$sum += $bits[1];
     }
    
     while (
$sum>>16) $sum = ($sum & 0xffff) + ($sum >> 16);
    
$checksum = pack('n1',~$sum);
     return
$checksum;
  }

  function
start_time()
  {
  
$this->timer_start_time = microtime();
  }
 
  function
get_time($acc=2)
  {
  
// format start time
  
$start_time = explode (" ", $this->timer_start_time);
  
$start_time = $start_time[1] + $start_time[0];
  
// get and format end time
  
$end_time = explode (" ", microtime());
  
$end_time = $end_time[1] + $end_time[0];
   return
number_format ($end_time - $start_time, $acc);
  }

  function
Build_Packet()
  {
  
$data = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwabcdefghi"; // the actual test data
  
$type = "\x08"; // 8 echo message; 0 echo reply message
  
$code = "\x00"; // always 0 for this program
  
$chksm = "\x00\x00"; // generate checksum for icmp request
  
$id = "\x00\x00"; // we will have to work with this later
  
$sqn = "\x00\x00"; // we will have to work with this later

   // now we need to change the checksum to the real checksum
  
$chksm = $this->ip_checksum($type.$code.$chksm.$id.$sqn.$data);

  
// now lets build the actual icmp packet
  
$this->request = $type.$code.$chksm.$id.$sqn.$data;
  
$this->request_len = strlen($this->request);
  }
 
  function
Ping($dst_addr,$timeout=5,$percision=3)
  {
  
// lets catch dumb people
  
if ((int)$timeout <= 0) $timeout=5;
   if ((int)
$percision <= 0) $percision=3;
  
  
// set the timeout
  
socket_set_option($this->icmp_socket,
    
SOL_SOCKET// socket level
    
SO_RCVTIMEO, // timeout option
    
array(
      
"sec"=>$timeout, // Timeout in seconds
      
"usec"=>// I assume timeout in microseconds
      
)
     );

   if (
$dst_addr)
   {
     if (@
socket_connect($this->icmp_socket, $dst_addr, NULL))
     {
    
     } else {
      
$this->errstr = "Cannot connect to $dst_addr";
       return
FALSE;
     }
    
$this->Build_Packet();
    
$this->start_time();
    
socket_write($this->icmp_socket, $this->request, $this->request_len);
     if (@
socket_recv($this->icmp_socket, &$this->reply, 256, 0))
     {
      
$this->time = $this->get_time($percision);
       return
$this->time;
     } else {
      
$this->errstr = "Timed out";
       return
FALSE;
     }
   } else {
    
$this->errstr = "Destination address not specified";
     return
FALSE;
   }
  }
}

$ping = new Net_Ping;
$ping->ping("www.google.ca");

if (
$ping->time)
  echo
"Time: ".$ping->time;
else
  echo
$ping->errstr;

?>

Hope this saves some troubles.

noSanity
Khaless [at] bigpond [dot] com
19-Jan-2004 05:55
I spent a while trying to use SOCK_RAW to send ICMP request packets so i could ping. This however lead me to need the internet checksum written as a php function, which was a little hard because of the way PHP handles variable types. Anyway, to save others the effort heres what i came up with, this returns Checksum for $data

<?PHP
// Computes Internet Checksum for $data
// will return a 16-bit internet checksum for $data
function inetChecksum($data)
{
  
// 32-bit accumilator, 16 bits at a time, adds odd bit on at end
  
for($i=0;$i<strlen($data);$i += 2)
   {
       if(
$data[$i+1]) $bits = unpack('n*',$data[$i].$data[$i+1]);
       else
$bits = unpack('C*',$data[$i]);
      
$sum += $bits[1];
   }
  
  
// Fold 32-bit sum to 16 bits
  
while ($sum>>16) $sum = ($sum & 0xffff) + ($sum >> 16);
  
$checksum = pack('n1',~$sum);
   return
$checksum;
}
?>

And with this i was able to construct a correct PING Request.
murzik [at] pisem dot net
06-Oct-2003 11:32
>The function, that send the WakeOnLan (WOL, Magic packet) signal:

<?php
# Wake on LAN - (c) [email protected], upgraded by Murzik <[email protected]>

flush();

function
WakeOnLan($addr, $mac)
{
 
$addr_byte = explode(':', $mac);
 
$hw_addr = '';

 for (
$a=0; $a < 6; $a++) $hw_addr .= chr(hexdec($addr_byte[$a]));

 
$msg = chr(255).chr(255).chr(255).chr(255).chr(255).chr(255);

 for (
$a = 1; $a <= 16; $a++)    $msg .= $hw_addr;

 
// send it to the broadcast address using UDP
 // SQL_BROADCAST option isn't help!!
 
$s = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP);
 if (
$s == false)
 {
  echo
"Error creating socket!\n";
  echo
"Error code is '".socket_last_error($s)."' - " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error($s));
 }
 else
 {
 
// setting a broadcast option to socket:
 
$opt_ret socket_set_option($s, 1, 6, TRUE);
  if(
$opt_ret < 0)
  {
   echo
"setsockopt() failed, error: " . strerror($opt_ret) . "\n";
  }
 
$e = socket_sendto($s, $msg, strlen($msg), 0, $addr, 2050);
 
socket_close($s);
  echo
"Magic Packet sent (".$e.") to ".$addr.", MAC=".$mac;
 }
}

#WakeOnLan('yourIPorDomain.dyndns.org', 'your:MAC:address');
#WakeOnLan('192.168.0.2', '00:30:84:2A:90:42');
#WakeOnLan('192.168.1.2', '00:05:1C:10:04:05');

//if you have switch or other routing devices in LAN, sendign to
// the local IP isn't helps! you need send to the broadcast address like this:
WakeOnLan('192.168.1.255', '00:05:1C:10:04:05');

?>

>TO "judeman at yahoo dot com":
I haven't found setsockopt() function ip PHP, I've found an equialent: socket_set_option().
bart at mediawave dot nl
06-Jan-2003 11:42
Here is a good article on some of the differences between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1.

talmage at usi-rpg dot com
04-Jan-2003 08:02
I have spent the past two days ripping out hair trying to figure out how to prevent zombie processes w/the examples above and I just happend to find this in the manual for another lanuage, felt it neccassry to port it here.

--begin copy--
van[at]webfreshener[dot]com
11-Oct-2002 02:53
 
Forking your PHP daemon will cause it to zombie on exit.

...or so I've seen on:
FreeBSD (PHP4.2.x)
Debian (PHP4.3.0-dev)
Darwin (PHP4.3.0-dev)

This was tested with the example code above and other scripts created for evaluation.

Seems adding <b>--enable-sigchild</b> to your configure will get rid of the problem.

Hope that saves some hair tearing :]

--end copy--

Thanks [email protected] !!!!
saryon at unfix dot org
09-Jul-2002 04:42
I found this EXTREMELY useful link on the zend php
mailing list:



It's about being able to use multiple connections
in a php socket server, WITHOUT having
to use those threads everyone seems to be
so very fond of.
works very well :)
(ps: i didn't make it, so....don't say thanks to me ;),
thank him)
daniel[at]lorch.cc
22-Feb-2002 05:32
"Beej's Guide to Network Programming" is an absolutely excellent and easy to understand tutorial to socket programming. It was written for C developers, but as the socket functions in PHP are (almost) analoguous, this should not be a problem.

davem at olsusa dot com
18-Feb-2002 02:27
Below is a simple forked daemon I wrote in PHP. I haven't seen one yet anywhere else, so I thought some people might be wondering how to do  it. Execute
with php -q <file>

<?PHP

/*

   PHP forked daemon
   Standalone PHP binary must be compiled with --enable-sockets and --enable-pcntl
   Dave M. -2002
       Online Services USA
*/

function sig_handler($signo) {

     switch(
$signo) {
         case
SIGTERM:
            
// handle shutdown tasks
            
exit;
             break;
         case
SIGHUP:
            
// handle restart tasks
            
break;
         case
SIGUSR1:
             print
"Caught SIGUSR1...\n";
             break;
         case
SIGCHLD:
             while(
pcntl_waitpid(-1,$status,WNOHANG)>0 ) {
             }
             break;
         case
SIGINT:
       exit;
         default:
            
// not implemented yet...
            
break;
     }

}

function
interact($sock) {

  
// Custom code goes here... e.g: socket_read() socket_write()...

}

function
become_daemon() {

  
$child = pcntl_fork();
   if(
$child) {
       exit;
// kill parent
  
}
  
posix_setsid(); // become session leader
  
chdir("/");
  
umask(0); // clear umask
  
return posix_getpid();

}

function
open_pid_file($file) {

   if(
file_exists($file)) {
      
$fp = fopen($file,"r");
      
$pid = fgets($fp,1024);
      
fclose($fp);
       if(
posix_kill($pid,0)) {
           print
"Server already running with PID: $pid\n";
           exit;
       }
       print
"Removing PID file for defunct server process $pid\n";
       if(!
unlink($file)) {
           print
"Cannot unlink PID file $file\n";
           exit;
       }
   }
   if(
$fp = fopen($file,"w")) {
       return
$fp;
   } else {
       print
"Unable to open PID file $file for writing...\n";
       exit;
   }
}

function
change_identity($uid,$gid) {
   global
$pid_file;
   if(!
posix_setgid($gid)) {
       print
"Unable to setgid to $gid!\n";
      
unlink($pid_file);
       exit;
   }   
   if(!
posix_setuid($uid)) {
       print
"Unable to setuid to $uid!\n";
      
unlink($pid_file);
       exit;
   }
  
  
}

error_reporting (4);

set_time_limit (0);

ob_implicit_flush ();

$pid_file = '/tmp/php_daemon.pid';

$underpriv_uid = '99'; // uid 99 == user nobody, at least on my system.
$underpriv_gid = '99';

$port = 10000;
$address = 0; // 0 binds to all addresses, may not work on fbsd

$quit = 0;

pcntl_signal(SIGCHLD, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGTERM, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGINT, "sig_handler");

$fh = open_pid_file($pid_file);

if ((
$sock = socket_create (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
   print
"socket_create() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror ($sock) . "\n";
}

if ((
$ret = socket_bind ($sock, $address, $port)) < 0) {
   print
"socket_bind() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror ($ret) . "\n";
}

if ((
$ret = socket_listen ($sock, 0)) < 0) {
   print
"socket_listen() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror ($ret) . "\n";
}

change_identity($underpriv_uid,$underpriv_gid);

print
"Server ready. Waiting for connections.....\n";

$pid = become_daemon();
fputs($fh,$pid);
fclose($fh);

while(!
$quit) {

   if ((
$connection = socket_accept($sock)) < 0) {
      
next;
   }
  
   if( (
$child = pcntl_fork()) == -1 ) {
       print 
"Could not fork!!\n";
       print
"Dying...\n";
      
$quit++;
   }
   elseif(
$child == 0) {
      
socket_close($sock);
      
interact($connection);
       exit;
   }
  
  
socket_close($connection);
  
}

if(
posix_getpid() == $pid) {
  
unlink($pid_file);
}
judeman at yahoo dot com
05-Jun-2001 05:49
After several hours of working with sockets in an attempt to do UDP broadcasting, I thought a little help was in order for anyone else looking to do something similar, since it uses a number of those "undocumented" functions.  Here's how I did it:

<?php
  
// here is a basic opening of the a socket.  AF_INET specifies the internet domain.  SOCK_DGRAM
// specifies the Datagram socket type the 0 specifies that I want to use the default protcol (which in this
// case is UDP)
  
$sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);

  
// if the file handle assigned to socket is less than 0 then opening the socket failed
  
if($sock < 0)
   {
       echo
"socket() failed, error: " . strerror($sock) . "\n";
   }

  
// here's where I set the socket options, this is essential to allow broadcasting.  An earlier comment (as of
// June 4th, 2001) explains what the parameters are.  For my purposes (UDP broadcasting) I need to set
// the broadcast option at the socket level to true.  In C, this done using SOL_SOCKET as the level param
// (2) and SO_BROADCAST as the type param (3).  These may exist in PHP but I couldn't reference them 
// so I used the values that referencing these variables in C returns (namely 1 and 6 respectively).  This
// function is basically just a wrapper to the C  function so check out the C documentation for more info
  
$opt_ret = setsockopt($sock, 1, 6, TRUE);

  
// if the return value is less than one, an error occured setting the options
  
if($opt_ret < 0)
   {
       echo
"setsockopt() failed, error: " . strerror($opt_ret) . "\n";
   }

  
// finally I am ready to broad cast something.  The sendto function allows this without any
// connections (essential for broadcasting).  So, this function sends the contents of $broadcast_string to the
// general broadcast address (255.255.255.255) on port 4096.  The 0 (param 4) specifies no special
// options, you can read about the options with man sendto
  
$send_ret = sendto($sock, $broadcast_string, strlen($broadcast_string), 0, '255.255.255.255', 4096);

// if the return value is less than 0, an error has occured
  
if($send_ret < 0)
   {
   echo
"sendto() failed, error: " . strerror($send_ret) . "<BR>\n";            }
// be sure to close your socket when you're done
close($sock);

<snmpwalkoidsocket_accept>
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