[PHP] Socket programming with PHP risky?

2003-07-21 Thread René Fournier
I've noticed in the PHP docs EXPERIMENTAL is marked over all the socket functions. Would it be risky to develop a PHP socket app using those functions? It seems they could change with the next release and my app would instantly stop working. On the other hand, I've found a lot of tutorials

Re: [PHP] Socket programming with PHP risky?

2003-07-21 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote René Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've noticed in the PHP docs EXPERIMENTAL is marked over all the socket functions. Would it be risky to develop a PHP socket app using those functions? It seems they could change with the next release and my app would instantly stop working.

Re: [PHP] Socket programming with PHP risky?

2003-07-21 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Curt Zirzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, I've found a lot of tutorials extolling PHP's socket functions, and since I know PHP a bit now I would rather use it for my TCP socket application than learn C and implement it there. What do you think? if you plan on

Re: [PHP] Socket programming with PHP risky?

2003-07-21 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Chris Shiflett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Disclaimer: Things listed as experimental should always be treated as such and never relied upon to have a consistent API or not break. That said, I recall that the current sockets extension maintainer desires to label the extension stable