Socket programming: Call to undefined function socket_create() error

[jeyshree]

Hai,
I am new to php socket programming.I have a doubt.

<?php	if(!($sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)))
	{
	    $errorcode = socket_last_error();
	    $errormsg = socket_strerror($errorcode);
	     
	    die("Couldn't create socket: [$errorcode] $errormsg \n");
	}
	 
	echo "Socket created";
?>

When i use this code,it shows an error"Fatal error: Call to undefined function socket_create() in C:\wamp\www\hai \socket.php on line 1".I am using windows 7 OS and wampserver version 2.0c.Will you please suggest me a way to solve the bug?thanks for your reply in advance.

[Atli]

Hey.

Looks like your server doesn't have the sockets extension enabled. You'll need to enable that to use those functions in your code. For a detailed explanation of that, see this page in the manual:

Installation of extensions on Windows

[jeyshree]

hai,
found the answer.you need to enable the socket extension in wamp. Click the wamp icon in the taskbar, go to
PHP => PHP extensions and click php_sockets. Make sure it has a tick mark to indicate that it is enabled.

After that restart apache. Now socket functions should work fine.thanks for replying me