PHP | Network Functions

Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP Network Functions.

The PHP network functions allows you to access the internet into PHP.

Installation

There is no Installation needed to use these functions; they are part of the PHP core.

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List of Network Functions

The following below is the list of network functions supported in PHP. PHP - indicates the earliest versions of PHP that have support for the functions.

Sr.No	Function & Description	PHP
1	checkdnsrr It checks the DNS record of corresponding the host or ip address.	4
2	closelog It closing the connection of system logger	4
3	define_syslog_variables Initializes the syslog variable	4
4	fsockopen It is used to open internet or Unix domain socket connections	4
5	gethostbyaddr It returns the error code from the last connection	5
6	gethostbyname It is used to get the internet host name which has given by IP Address.	4
7	gethostbynamel It is used to get a list of the IPV4 addresses which has given by Host name	4
8	gethostname It is used to get the host name	4
9	getmxrr It is used to get the MX records to Host	4
10	getprotobyname It is used to get Protocal number which has associated with protocal name	4
11	getprotobynumber It is used to fetchs all result rows and returns the result set as an associative array	4
12	getservbyname It is used to get Protocal name which has associated with protocal number	4
13	getservbyport It is used to get internet services which has corresponding to port number.	4
14	header_register_callback It will register the function that will be called when PHP start sending output.	4
15	header_remove It is used to remove previously set headers	4
16	header It is used to send the row of HTTP Headers.	4
17	headers_list It is used to returns a list of repose headers sent	4
18	headers_sent It will check whether header have been sent or not.	4
19	http_response_code. It used to get or set the HTTP Response.	4
20	inet_ntop It used to convert internet package to human readable formate.	4
21	inet_pton It used to convert human readable Ip address to in_addr format.	4
22	ip2long It used to convert ipv4 address to long integer.	4
23	long2ip It used to convert long integer value to Ipv4 address.	4
24	openlog It used to open connection to system logger.	4
25	pfsockopen It used to open internet or unix domain socket.	4
26	setcookie It used to set the cookies.	4
27	setrawcookie It used to set the cookies.	4
28	socket_set_blocking It is an alias of stream_set_blocking(), It has block or unblock options for stram mode.	4

In our subsequent tutorials, we are going to be discussing about the above listed PHP network functions.

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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about PHP closelog() Function.

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