PHP Tutorials — Sockets

By the end of this tutorial you will end up with a functioning IRC bot that can connect to a server, join channels, give and take operator, half operator, voice and protected status from a user. In the next tutorial I will discuss the different ways to "log" certain parts of the information processed by the bot, how to build a statistics table of various statistics like who has been on the longest, speaks the most, etc.

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This tutorial will teach you how to create sockets and receive data from them. and use this data in a relevant way to start your first socket script. Using fsockopen() and fgets()

This tutorial walks you through creating a php script to send a trackback HTTP request to a blog, read the response, and let the user know whether or not the trackback was successful.

Combined Minds presents you the biggest and best PHP -> IRC bot tutorial on the web! This tutorial learns you how to create a very good working IRC bot from scratch!

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a PHP script to check whether the actual domain name is available or not.

Using sockets check whether and link input by a user is working or gives a 404 error, many uses in many websites. Don't let users submit 404 links anymore!

In this tutorial I will show you how to check whether a domain, server is up or down and how fast it is. Generally speaking we will implement a ping command with PHP.