# socket_listen

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5)

socket_listen — Listens for a connection on a socket

### Description

bool socket_listen ( resource `$socket` [, int `$backlog` ] )

After the socket `socket` has been created using socket_create() and bound to a name with socket_bind(), it may be told to listen for incoming connections on `socket` .

socket_listen() is applicable only to sockets of type `SOCK_STREAM` or `SOCK_SEQPACKET`.

### Parameters

`socket`

  A valid socket resource created with socket_create().

`backlog`

  A maximum of `backlog` incoming connections will be queued for processing. If a connection request arrives with the queue full the client may receive an error with an indication of ECONNREFUSED, or, if the underlying protocol supports retransmission, the request may be ignored so that retries may succeed.

  > Note: The maximum number passed to the `backlog` parameter highly depends on the underlying platform. On Linux, it is silently truncated to `SOMAXCONN`. On win32, if passed `SOMAXCONN`, the underlying service provider responsible for the socket will set the backlog to a maximum reasonable value. There is no standard provision to find out the actual backlog value on this platform.

### Return Values

Returns `TRUE` on success or `FALSE` on failure. The error code can be retrieved with socket_last_error(). This code may be passed to socket_strerror() to get a textual explanation of the error.

### See Also

- socket_accept()
- socket_bind()
- socket_connect()
- socket_create()
- socket_strerror()