This is a PHP API for interfacing with the network

The easiest way to install is to use Composer. You can reference it in your project like this:

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/FuturePublishing/php-network"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "FuturePublishing/php-network": ">=1.0.0"
    }
}

It conforms to the PSR-0 standard so can be autoloaded easily. (If you use Composer, including its autoloader.php will do all the work for you.)

• PHP 5.3+
• PHPUnit 3.6+ (for running unit tests)

The SocketConnection class allows you to send data (it does not receive data) over a TCP or UDP connection. Example:

<?php
use \Future\Network\Connection\SocketConnection;

try {
    //                             host         port     protocol
    $socket = new SocketConnection('localhost', '11211', SocketConnection::TYPE_TCP);
    $socket->send("set / 0 3600 5 noreply\r\nhello\r\n");
} catch (\Future\Network\Exception $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}

The constructor will throw an exception if it fails to connect, meaning the class won't be instantiated. In this case you may want to instantiate a DummyConnection in its place if you need an object but you don't really care if it doesn't work.

The DummyConnection class implements the \Future\Network\Connection interface in the most minimal way possible. It is useful if you need to test with, or if a SocketConnection fails and you need something to pass to another class.