# socket_get_option

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

socket_get_option — Gets socket options for the socket

### Description

mixed socket_get_option ( resource `$socket` , int `$level` , int `$optname` )

The socket_get_option() function retrieves the value for the option specified by the `optname` parameter for the specified `socket` .

### Parameters

`socket`

  A valid socket resource created with socket_create() or socket_accept().

`level`

  The `level` parameter specifies the protocol level at which the option resides. For example, to retrieve options at the socket level, a `level` parameter of SOL_SOCKET would be used. Other levels, such as TCP, can be used by specifying the protocol number of that level. Protocol numbers can be found by using the getprotobyname() function.

`optname`

  Available Socket Options
  Option | Description | Type
  --- | --- | ---
  SO_DEBUG | Reports whether debugging information is being recorded. | int
  SO_BROADCAST | Reports whether transmission of broadcast messages is supported. | int
  SO_REUSEADDR | Reports whether local addresses can be reused. | int
  SO_KEEPALIVE | Reports whether connections are kept active with periodic transmission of messages. If the connected socket fails to respond to these messages, the connection is broken and processes writing to that socket are notified with a SIGPIPE signal. | int
  SO_LINGER | Reports whether the `socket` lingers on socket_close() if data is present. By default, when the socket is closed, it attempts to send all unsent data. In the case of a connection-oriented socket, socket_close() will wait for its peer to acknowledge the data. If l_onoff is non-zero and l_linger is zero, all the unsent data will be discarded and RST (reset) is sent to the peer in the case of a connection-oriented socket. On the other hand, if l_onoff is non-zero and l_linger is non-zero, socket_close() will block until all the data is sent or the time specified in l_linger elapses. If the socket is non-blocking, socket_close() will fail and return an error. | array. The array will contain two keys: l_onoff and l_linger.
  SO_OOBINLINE | Reports whether the `socket` leaves out-of-band data inline. | int
  SO_SNDBUF | Reports the size of the send buffer. | int
  SO_RCVBUF | Reports the size of the receive buffer. | int
  SO_ERROR | Reports information about error status and clears it. | int (cannot be set by socket_set_option())
  SO_TYPE | Reports the `socket` type (e.g. `SOCK_STREAM`). | int (cannot be set by socket_set_option())
  SO_DONTROUTE | Reports whether outgoing messages bypass the standard routing facilities. | int
  SO_RCVLOWAT | Reports the minimum number of bytes to process for `socket` input operations. | int
  SO_RCVTIMEO | Reports the timeout value for input operations. | array. The array will contain two keys: sec which is the seconds part on the timeout value and usec which is the microsecond part of the timeout value.
  SO_SNDTIMEO | Reports the timeout value specifying the amount of time that an output function blocks because flow control prevents data from being sent. | array. The array will contain two keys: sec which is the seconds part on the timeout value and usec which is the microsecond part of the timeout value.
  SO_SNDLOWAT | Reports the minimum number of bytes to process for `socket` output operations. | int

### Return Values

Returns the value of the given option, or `FALSE` on errors.

### Examples

Example#1 socket_set_option() example

`<?php
$socket = socket_create_listen(1223);
$linger = array('l_linger' => 1, 'l_onoff' => 1);
socket_set_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_LINGER, $linger);
var_dump(socket_get_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR));
?>`

### ChangeLog

Version | Description
--- | ---
4.3.0 | The name of this function was changed. It used to be called socket_getopt().