<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Unix Domain: Unix and UDG</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="transports.inet.html">Internet Domain: TCP, UDP, SSL, and TLS</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="types.comparisons.html">PHP type comparison tables</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="transports.html">List of Supported Socket Transports</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="transports.unix" class="section"> <h2 class="title">Unix Domain: Unix and UDG</h2> <p class="simpara"> <em>unix://</em> and <em>udg://</em> (udg:// since PHP 5). </p> <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara"><em>unix:///tmp/mysock</em></span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara"><em>udg:///tmp/mysock</em></span></li> </ul> <p class="simpara"> <em>unix://</em> provides access to a socket stream connection in the Unix domain. <em>udg://</em> provides an alternate transport to a Unix domain socket using the user datagram protocol. </p> <p class="simpara"> Unix domain sockets, unlike Internet domain sockets, do not expect a port number. In the case of <span class="function"><a href="function.fsockopen.html" class="function">fsockopen()</a></span> the <em><code class="parameter">portno</code></em> parameter should be set to 0. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="transports.inet.html">Internet Domain: TCP, UDP, SSL, and TLS</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="types.comparisons.html">PHP type comparison tables</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="transports.html">List of Supported Socket Transports</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
