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Be sure to check out the manual page (see link above) and the user comments at the bottom of the page for more examples of the functions use
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Be sure to check out the manual page (see link above) and the user comments at the bottom of the page for more examples of the functions use

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What's a good way to check if a port is open in php? &nbsp;I'm trying to write a script that makes sure a server is online.
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What's a good way to check if a port is open in php?  I'm trying to write a script that makes sure a server is online.

Checking if a port is open?

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.