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Socket Functions

Εισαγωγή

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 » Unix Socket FAQ might be a good start.

Note: This extension has been moved to the » PECL repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of PHP 5.3.0.

Απαιτήσεις

Δεν χρειάζονται εξωτερικές βιβλιοθήκες για να γίνει build αυτή η επέκταση.

Εγκατάσταση

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.

Note: Η υποστήριξη για IPv6 προστέθηκε με την PHP 5.0.0 .

Ρυθμίσεις κατά την εκτέλεση

Αυτή η επέκταση δεν έχει directives ρύθμισης ορισμένα στο php.ini.

Τύποι Πόρων

socket_accept(), socket_create_listen() and socket_create() return socket recources.

Προκαθορισμένες Σταθερές

Οι σταθερές παρακάτω ορίζονται από αυτή την επέκταση, και θα είναι διαθέσιμες μόνο αν η επέκταση έχει γίνει compile μέσα στην PHP ή έχει φορτωθεί δυναμικά κατά την εκτέλεση.

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)
MSG_EOR (integer)
MSG_EOF (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 usable 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.

Note: 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

Παραδείγματα

Example#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_INETSOCK_STREAMSOL_TCP)) === false) {
    echo 
"socket_create() failed: reason: " socket_strerror(socket_last_error()) . "\n";
}

if (
socket_bind($sock$address$port) === false) {
    echo 
"socket_bind() failed: reason: " socket_strerror(socket_last_error($sock)) . "\n";
}

if (
socket_listen($sock5) === false) {
    echo 
"socket_listen() failed: reason: " socket_strerror(socket_last_error($sock)) . "\n";
}

do {
    if ((
$msgsock socket_accept($sock)) === false) {
        echo 
"socket_accept() failed: reason: " socket_strerror(socket_last_error($sock)) . "\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($msgsock$msgstrlen($msg));

    do {
        if (
false === ($buf socket_read($msgsock2048PHP_NORMAL_READ))) {
            echo 
"socket_read() failed: reason: " socket_strerror(socket_last_error($msgsock)) . "\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($msgsock$talkbackstrlen($talkback));
        echo 
"$buf\n";
    } while (
true);
    
socket_close($msgsock);
} while (
true);

socket_close($sock);
?>

Example#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_INETSOCK_STREAMSOL_TCP);
if (
$socket === false) {
    echo 
"socket_create() failed: reason: " socket_strerror(socket_last_error()) . "\n";
} else {
    echo 
"OK.\n";
}

echo 
"Attempting to connect to '$address' on port '$service_port'...";
$result socket_connect($socket$address$service_port);
if (
$result === false) {
    echo 
"socket_connect() failed.\nReason: ($result) " socket_strerror(socket_last_error($socket)) . "\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($socket$instrlen($in));
echo 
"OK.\n";

echo 
"Reading response:\n\n";
while (
$out socket_read($socket2048)) {
    echo 
$out;
}

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

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socket_accept> <use_soap_error_handler
Last updated: Sun, 25 Nov 2007
 
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Sockets
davidccook+php at gmail dot com
04-Aug-2008 09:25
Planning on sending integer values through as socket, I was surprised to find PHP only supports sending strings.
I came to the conclusion the only way to do it would be to create a string that would evaluate to the same byte values as the integer I wanted to send. So (after much messing about) I created a couple of functions: one to create this 'string' and one to convert a received value back to an integer.

<?php
//Converts an integer to 'byte array' (string), default to 4 'bytes' (chars)
function int2string($int, $numbytes=4)
{
  
$str = "";
   for (
$i=0; $i < $numbytes; $i++) {
    
$str .= chr($int % 256);
    
$int = $int / 256;
   }
   return
$str;
}

//Converts a 'byte array' (string) to integer
function string2int($str)
{
  
$numbytes = strlen($str);
  
$int = 0;
   for (
$i=0; $i < $numbytes; $i++) {
    
$int += ord($str[$i]) * pow(2, $i * 8);
   }
   return
$int;
}

//Example
echo int2string(16705, 2); // 16-bit integer converts to two bytes: 65, 65; which in turn is 'AA'
echo string2int('AA'); //back the other way
?>
firefly2442 at hotmail dot com
29-Mar-2008 01:31
Here's a simple script for sending messages back and forth between a server and client.  At this point, the code is fairly rough because once it enters the while loop, it doesn't stop but it can be modified and fixed.  Enjoy.

<?php
//The Server
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$address = "127.0.0.1";
$port = "10000";
 

/* create a socket in the AF_INET family, using SOCK_STREAM for TCP connection */
$mysock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);

socket_bind($mysock, $address, $port);

socket_listen($mysock, 5);

$client = socket_accept($mysock);

echo
"Server started, accepting connections...\n";
 

$i = 0;
while (
true == true)
{
   
$i++;
    echo
"Sending $i to client.\n";
   
socket_write($client, $i, strlen($i));
   
   
$input = socket_read($client, 2048);
    echo
"Response from client is: $input\n";
   
sleep(5);
}

echo
"Closing sockets...";
socket_close($client);

socket_close($mysock);

?>

<?php
//The Client
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$address = "127.0.0.1";
$port = 10000;

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

echo
"Attempting to connect to '$address' on port '$port'...";
$result = socket_connect($socket, $address, $port);
if (
$result === false) {
    echo
"socket_connect() failed.\nReason: ($result) " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error($socket)) . "\n";
} else {
    echo
"successfully connected to $address.\n";
}

$i = 0;
while (
true == true)
{
   
$i++;
    echo
"Sending $i to server.\n";
   
socket_write($socket, $i, strlen($i));
   
   
$input = socket_read($socket, 2048);
    echo
"Response from server is: $input\n";
   
sleep(5);
}

echo
"Closing socket...";
socket_close($socket);
?>
david dot schueler at tel-billig dot de
16-Jan-2008 03:37
Another Workaround for sending UDP Broadcasts to 255.255.255.255 and receiving the responses on a specific port:
<?php
// NOTE!
// This is quick and dirty code! It comes without error handling!

// Timeout in seconds waiting for a response.
$timeout = 10;
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP);
socket_bind($sock,"0.0.0.0",10000);
socket_set_option($sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, 1);
$buf = "Hello World";
socket_sendto($sock, $buf, strlen($buf), 0, "255.255.255.255", 10000);
socket_set_block($sock);
socket_set_option($sock,
                        
SOL_SOCKET,
                        
SO_RCVTIMEO,
                         array(
"sec"=>10,"usec"=>0));
$timeout += time();
while (
time() <= $timeout-1) {
 if ((
$len = @socket_recvfrom($sock,$ret,2048,0,$cIP,$cPort)) != false) {
  echo
bin2hex($ret);
 }
}
socket_set_nonblock($sock);
socket_close($sock);
?>
david dot schueler at tel-bilig dot de
14-Jan-2008 03:02
NOTE! If you are trying to send a broadcast-message using this code you _may_ get a "Permission denied"-Error at socket_connect, even if you are running this as root on a linux box.
<?php
$sock
= socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP);
socket_connect($sock,"255.255.255.255", 10000);
socket_set_option($sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, 1);
$buf = "Hello World!";
socket_write($sock,$buf,strlen($buf));
socket_close($sock);
?>
The only workaround for this is to get the broadcast address of the interface and walk through all IPs with a for-loop.
nakarman at gmail dot com
10-Nov-2007 01:01
I have beaten the zombies with this code:
pcntl_signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
pcntl_signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL);
pcntl_signal(SIGINT, SIG_DFL);

server now exits with `kill`
White-Gandalf
02-Sep-2007 12:03
At the moment (2007-09), i don't find this extension in the PECL, but instead in the usual php extension directory. It needs to be included in the php-ini:

extension = php_sockets.dll

(or ".so" - whatever for your system).
roberto at spadim dot com dot br
11-Feb-2007 10:27
Wake on Lan , working ok without configurations, and some features

<?php
function wake_on_lan($mac,$addr=false,$port=7) {
   
//Usage
    //    $addr:
    //    You will send and broadcast tho this addres.
    //    Normaly you need to use the 255.255.255.255 adres, so i made it as default. So you don't need
    //    to do anything with this.
    //    Since 255.255.255.255 have permission denied problems you can use addr=false to get all broadcast address from ifconfig command
    //    addr can be array with broadcast IP values
    //    $mac:
    //    You will WAKE-UP this WOL-enabled computer, you need to add the MAC-addres here.
    //    Mac can be array too   
    //
    //Return
    //    TRUE:    When socked was created succesvolly and the message has been send.
    //    FALSE:    Something went wrong
    //
    //Example 1
    //    When the message has been send you will see the message "Done...."
    //    if ( wake_on_lan('00:00:00:00:00:00'))
    //        echo 'Done...';
    //    else
    //        echo 'Error while sending';
    //
   
if ($addr===false){
       
exec("ifconfig | grep Bcast | cut -d \":\" -f 3 | cut -d \" \" -f 1",$addr);
       
$addr=array_flip(array_flip($addr));
    }
    if(
is_array($addr)){
       
$last_ret=false;
        for (
$i=0;$i<count($ret);$i++)
            if (
$ret[$i]!==false)
               
$last_ret=wake_on_lan($mac,$ret[$i],$port);
        return(
$last_ret);
    }
    if (
is_array($mac)){
       
$ret=array();
        foreach(
$mac as $k=>v)
           
$ret[$k]=wake_on_lan($v,$addr,$port);
        return(
$ret);
    }
   
//Check if it's an real MAC-addres and split it into an array
   
$mac=strtoupper($mac);
    if (!
preg_match("/([A-F0-9]{1,2}[-:]){5}[A-F0-9]{1,2}/",$mac,$maccheck))
        return
false;
   
$addr_byte = preg_split("/[-:]/",$maccheck[0]);
 
   
//Creating hardware adress
   
$hw_addr = '';
    for (
$a=0; $a < 6; $a++)//Changing mac adres from HEXEDECIMAL to DECIMAL
       
$hw_addr .= chr(hexdec($addr_byte[$a]));
   
   
//Create package data
   
$msg = str_repeat(chr(255),6);
    for (
$a = 1; $a <= 16; $a++)
       
$msg .= $hw_addr;
   
//Sending data
   
if (function_exists('socket_create')){
       
//socket_create exists
       
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP);    //Can create the socket
       
if ($sock){
           
$sock_data = socket_set_option($sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, 1); //Set
           
if ($sock_data){
               
$sock_data = socket_sendto($sock, $msg, strlen($msg), 0, $addr,$port); //Send data
               
if ($sock_data){
                   
socket_close($sock); //Close socket
                   
unset($sock);
                    return(
true);
                }
            }
        }
        @
socket_close($sock);
        unset(
$sock);
    }
   
$sock=fsockopen("udp://" . $addr, $port);
    if(
$sock){
       
$ret=fwrite($sock,$msg);
       
fclose($sock);
    }
    if(
$ret)
        return(
true);
    return(
false);   
}
?>
chabotc at xs4all dot nl
17-Dec-2006 01:01
For an implementation of a Socket Daemon framework that can handle both client and server sockets, async (non blocking) communication, which is flexible and easy to use see:

http://www.chabotc.nl/php/php-socket-daemon-library/
aeolianmeson at NOSPAM dot blitzeclipse dot com
30-May-2006 12:13
There is a fantastic book on this library called 'TCP/IP Sockets in C' (ISBN 1558608265), that covers all of the ins and outs, quirks, and everything else that goes on. It's written for C, of course, but it could have easily been written for PHP with almost no serious code differences.

Dustin
f.moisant
18-May-2006 05:41
This function to send Magic Packet works really !!!

/********/
<?php
function wake($ip, $mac, $port)
{
 
$nic = fsockopen("udp://" . $ip, $port);
  if(
$nic)
  {
   
$packet = "";
    for(
$i = 0; $i < 6; $i++)
      
$packet .= chr(0xFF);
    for(
$j = 0; $j < 16; $j++)
    {
      for(
$k = 0; $k < 6; $k++)
      {
       
$str = substr($mac, $k * 2, 2);
       
$dec = hexdec($str);
       
$packet .= chr($dec);
      }
    }
   
$ret = fwrite($nic, $packet);
   
fclose($nic);
    if(
$ret)
      return
true;
  }
  return
false;
}
?>

/********/

Executed with:
wake('123.123.123.123', '112233445566', 9);
goldemish at tiscali dot it
24-Apr-2006 06:52
Function to send Magic Packets for Wake on Wan (WOW) or Wake on Lan(WOL), without sockets library.

<?
function WakeOnLan($ip, $mac, $port)
{
        $packet = "";
        for($i = 0; $i < 6; $i++) $packet .= chr(0xFF);
        for($i = 0; $i < 6; $i++) $packet .= chr((int)substr($mac, $i, $i + 2));
        $nic = fsockopen("udp://" . $ip, $port));
        if($nic==false){
            return false;
            fclose($nic);
        }
        fwrite($nic, $packet);
        fclose($nic);
        return true;
}
?>
arplynn at gmail dot com
21-Jan-2006 12:19
If you want to use any complicated preexisting protocols, you may find the function pack (http://php.net/pack) useful.
bmatheny at mobocracy dot net
16-Sep-2005 06:31
A multicast server can be written badly as follows:

$bc_string = "Hello World!";
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
$opt_ret = socket_set_option($sock, 1, 6, TRUE);
$send_ret = socket_sendto($sock, $bc_string, strlen($bc_string), 0, '230.0.0.1', 4446);

Checking the return types is needed, but this does allow for you to multicast from php code.
philip at birk-jensen dot dk
22-Aug-2005 06:22
I've been using the ICMP Checksum calculation function written by Khaless [at] bigpond [dot] com. But when having an odd length of data, it failed, so I made my own instead, which adds a 0 if the data length is odd:
<?php
function icmpChecksum($data)
{
   
// Add a 0 to the end of the data, if it's an "odd length"
   
if (strlen($data)%2)
       
$data .= "\x00";
   
   
// Let PHP do all the dirty work
   
$bit = unpack('n*', $data);
   
$sum = array_sum($bit);
   
   
// Stolen from: Khaless [at] bigpond [dot] com
    // The code from the original ping program:
    //    sum = (sum >> 16) + (sum & 0xffff);    /* add hi 16 to low 16 */
    //    sum += (sum >> 16);            /* add carry */
    // which also works fine, but it seems to me that
    // Khaless will work on large data.
   
while ($sum>>16)
       
$sum = ($sum >> 16) + ($sum & 0xffff);
   
    return
pack('n*', ~$sum);
}
?>
m dot hoppe at hyperspeed dot de
02-Sep-2004 06:36
Very good step-by-step tutorial for a network daemon is here:
http://www.php-mag.net/itr/online_artikel [next]
[before] /psecom,id,484,nodeid,114.html

Sorry, I was forced to split this link. :-(
aidan at php dot net
18-Aug-2004 05:08
hexdump() is a fantastic function for "dumping" packets or binary output from servers. See the below link for more information.

http://aidanlister.com/repos/v/function.hexdump.php
Toppi at kacke dot de
18-Jun-2004 07:06
Here another socketclass which can handle the most importand things.
http://kacke.de/php_samples/source.php?f=socke.inc

Here a little Chatserver based on this class.
http://kacke.de/php_samples/source.php?f=pline.php

Maybe its helpful :)

Toppi
KnoB
11-Jun-2004 05:35
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
17-May-2004 07:40
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
18-Jan-2004 09:55
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;