PHP function stream_socket_recvfrom()

Availability in PHP 5.0

Receives data from a socket, connected or not

Parameters

Parameter	Data type	Default value	Note
$socket	resource	not	The remote socket.
$length	int	not	The number of bytes to receive from the socket.
$flags	int	null,	The value of flags can be any combination of the following: Possible values for flags STREAM_OOB Process OOB (out-of-band) data. STREAM_PEEK Retrieve data from the socket, but do not consume the buffer. Subsequent calls to fread or stream_socket_recvfrom will see the same data.
$address	string	null	If address is provided it will be populated with the address of the remote socket.

Return values

string

the read data, as a string

Other resources

Official documentation for stream-socket-recvfrom