[ENet-discuss] ENet and PHP's socket library

[Bjørn Lindeijer]

Looking back at what you're trying to achieve, I'd have to ask why do
you want to use ENet just to query some statistics? Since this needs
sequenced and reliable communication anyway, the easiest thing to do in
my opinion is to use a basic TCP socket separate from the socket(s)
driven by the ENet protocol.

Bjørn

GhostManZero wrote:
> That was what i feared the most, i wonder if i'll be able to do some  
> bindings for ENet then, considering how i've never written any  
> bindings for any languages before...
> 
> Also, my main language is C++.
> 
> Quoting Giuseppe Greco <giuseppe.greco at agamura.com>:
> 
>> To connect to an ENet server you need an ENet client since both peers
>> must implement the same protocol (or if you prefer "talk the same
>> language"). You cannot just use a raw socket and expect it is able to
>> communicate with an ENet server. Of course, ENet provides also a simple
>> socket API (enet_socket_...) but it just hides the differences between
>> the Socket API on Windows and the Socket API on UNIX.
>>
>> What you can do is to write PHP bindings for ENet (I don't know if
>> they already exist - I use to program in C, period).
>>
>> j3d.
>>
>>>
>>>    Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>    I would like to know if it would be possible to use PHP's socket
>>> library to connect to a ENet server and be able to send and receive
>>> messages, as i'd like to try to do a simple PHP script where my script
>>> connects to a ENet Game Server and fetches the total ammount of
>>> players online.
>>>
>>>    Would such thing be possible under PHP? If so, would anyone mind
>>> telling me a bit of how i should proceed?
>>>
>>>    I'm not a PHP newbie, so if you just point me out to the functions
>>> i must use, and in what way, i can take care of it myself.
>>>
>>>    Thank you for your time!
>>> --
>>> ~Zero