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<h1 class="refname">pfsockopen</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">pfsockopen</span> — <span class="dc-title">Open persistent Internet or Unix domain socket connection</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>pfsockopen</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$hostname</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$port</code><span class="initializer"> = -1</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter reference">&$errno</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter reference">&$errstr</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">float</span> <code class="parameter">$timeout</code><span class="initializer"> = ini_get("default_socket_timeout")</span></span>
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This function behaves exactly as <span class="function"><a href="function.fsockopen.html" class="function">fsockopen()</a></span> with the
difference that the connection is not closed after the script finishes.
It is the persistent version of <span class="function"><a href="function.fsockopen.html" class="function">fsockopen()</a></span>.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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For parameter information, see the <span class="function"><a href="function.fsockopen.html" class="function">fsockopen()</a></span>
documentation.
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.fsockopen.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">fsockopen()</a> - Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection</span></li>
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