Error using socket_create in PHP

[broadstairs]

I know currently I am using a very old xampp on Windows 7 but I need to know if things like socket_create will be supported in the latest version on xampp. My PHP code (written on Linux) uses socket_create etc rather than fsockopen. Currently and unsurprisingly socket_create fails on my old xampp. If it is not available in the latest version how to I make it so?

Thanks Stuart

[Altrea]

If the socket functions are not available in current xampp versions, there is no way around it.
They must be enabled at compile time, so you would need to compile php yourself and don't need xampp any more.

[broadstairs]

I'll update to the latest and see what happens.

Stuart

[broadstairs]

Well you are correct socket_create is not supported on the latest version, however it does not require a compile of PHP but the installation of an extension which is called php8-sockets on the openSUSE distro. Can this not be added to xampp windows version?

Stuart

[Altrea]

however it does not require a compile of PHP but the installation of an extension which is called php8-sockets on the openSUSE distro.

Well than probably you know much more about PHP than i do.
I just rely on the official PHP documentation:

Requirements

No external libraries are needed to build this extension.

Installation

The socket functions described here are part of an extension to PHP which must be enabled at compile time by giving the --enable-sockets option to configure.

Can this not be added to xampp windows version?

I don't know, you are the man with all the knowledge.

[Altrea]

Did you try to uncomment the socket extension in your php.ini?

[broadstairs]

Yes I have and yes it works. Sorry - senior moment I must have missed that when searching through php.ini the first time.

Stuart