PHP Socket context options

Introduction

Access to filesystem and various other stream wrappers can be customized by various context options and parameters configures by stream_context_create() and stream_context_set_option() functions.

Following list shows various socket context options are available for all wrappers that work over sockets, like tcp, http and ftp.

Example

<?php
// connect to the internet using the '192.168.0.100' IP
$opts = array(
   'socket' => array(
      'bindto' => '192.168.0.100:0',
   ),
);
// ...and use it to fetch the data
echo file_get_contents('http://www.example.com', false, $context);
?>