Posted by Henk on 06/07/05 17:38

Hello,

I'm working with the socket functions from php and connect to a socket
server, written in c++.
I can send (text) strings from php to the server, but I would like to know
how I can send a binary stream. I would like to send the string WITH the
terminating zero over the socket. I would like to do this because it's
possible on the receive side that I receive more than one message at once
(because it's a stream).

if (!socket_connect($sock, $address, $port))
{

}
else
{
socket_write($sock, $msg,$length);
}

so the $msg should be modified to a binary string so that the socket write
function includes the terminating zero. Or should I use other functions to
encode the data before sending it over the socket?

regards,
Henk

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