pfsockopen
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
pfsockopen — Open persistent Internet or Unix domain socket connection
Description
resource pfsockopen
( string $hostname
[, int $port
[, int &$errno
[, string &$errstr
[, float $timeout
]]]] )
This function behaves exactly as fsockopen() with the difference that the connection is not closed after the script finishes. It is the persistent version of fsockopen().