pfsockopen

(PHP 3>= 3.0.7, PHP 4 , PHP 5)

pfsockopen --  Open persistent Internet or Unix domain socket connection

Description

resource pfsockopen ( string hostname, int port [, int &errno [, string &errstr [, int 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().

if required, specifies the hostname of your