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Reputation: 5413

Running a PHP file on XAMPP versus on php command line

I have a chatdemo.php which includes socket.php socket file. Inside the socket.php file there is a line

socket_bind($master, $address, $port);

where $address = "localhost" and $port=1300.

However, when I put onto the browser (and the apache from XAMPP is up) http://localhost/demo/chatdemo.php it says:

Warning: socket_bind() [function.socket-bind]: unable to bind address [48]:
Address already in use in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/demo/socket.class.php on line 23
socket_bind() failed

So, instead, I goto the command line and did a

php -q /demo/chatbot.demo.php
Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /demo/socket.php on line 21
Server Started : 2012-03-27 17:24:24
Listening on   : localhost port 13000
Master socket  : Resource id #5

So the question is: Why can't I run that chatdemo.php on my browser on localhost(using XAMPP), whereas I could executed that on the command line using php(non-XAMPP)?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3673

Answers (1)

Shiplu Mokaddim
Shiplu Mokaddim

Reputation: 57650

You shouldn't even try to run a server (that listens to a port and accepts connection) by a web server. A web server, processes a request and invokes your PHP script as necessary. Your script has 30 seconds time to finish it. This is the expected behavior. But when you run a server. The story is different. It runs 24/7. Think about web server, it runs 24/7. Of course your server can have much less run time than this. But if you run it under a web server 1 of the thread will be blocked for long time for every request.

Servers should be run stand alone. In your case it should run from command line.

Farther reading.

  1. Client-server architecture
  2. Socket states and the client-server model

For the warning at the command line just change the date.timezone settings in php.ini according to your location. I use 

date.timezone = "Asia/Dhaka"

Upvotes: 1

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