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PHP RFC: Implement socket_getaddrinfo()
- Version: 0.1
- Date: 2016-08-08
- Author: David Walker (dave@mudsite.com)
- Status: Draft
- First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/socket_getaddrinfo
Introduction
This RFC targets a reported feature request in #72733. The request is that PHP expose the C level function getaddrinfo(). This is a missing nice piece to the current socket library. When dealing with IP variable networks it would be beneficial to allow libc to tell us what methods of connecting/listening would be most appropriate given a set of hints.
Proposal
The implementation[1] I'm proposing implements 4 new socket_* functions. socket_getaddrinfo() will return an array of resources, with each resource corresponding to each returned addrinfo sockaddr. The next two implemented methods socket_addrinfo_bind(), and socket_addrinfo_connect(), would be used to bind, or connect, to a given resource rather than make the user go through the process of creating the socket and connect/binding themselves. The fourth function is a free'r if you'd want to free the resources before end of script.
array socket_getaddrinfo(string node[, mixed service, array hints]) resource socket_addrinfo_connect(sockaddrresource sockaddr) resource socket_addrinfo_bind(sockaddrresource sockaddr) null socket_addrinfo_close(sockaddrresource sockaddr)
<?php $addrinfo = socket_getaddrinfo('127.0.0.1', 2000, array('ai_family' => AI_INET, 'ai_socktype' => SOCK_STREAM)); $sockaddr = reset($addrinfo); if (!$sockaddr) die ("No Valid Socket Types"); $sock = socket_addrinfo_bind($sockaddr); // ^^ $sock is a socket resource that is bound to 127.0.0.1:2000 using TCP/IP ready for reading foreach ($addrinfo as $sockaddr) { socket_addrinfo_close($sockaddr); }
Backward Incompatible Changes
New functionality; no BC problems here.
Proposed PHP Version(s)
Next PHP 7.x (currently 7.2)
RFC Impact
To SAPIs
None
To Existing Extensions
Socket acquired new functionality
To Opcache
None
New Constants
Exposing the AI_* family of constants.
Proposed Voting Choices
Vote to implement the new functions, would require a 2/3 majority.