# pfsockopen

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

pfsockopen — Open persistent Internet or Unix domain socket connection

### Description

resource pfsockopen ( string `$hostname` [, int `$port` [, int `&$errno` [, string `&$errstr` [, float `$timeout` ]]]] )

This function behaves exactly as fsockopen() with the difference that the connection is not closed after the script finishes. It is the persistent version of fsockopen().

### See Also

- fsockopen()