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I'm reposing this for a guy on another foums.

Well I am having some problems. I moved to a new server and they are running PHP5. I don't a single damn thing about PHP5 and I barely was able to stay afloat with PHP4. So I was wondering if anyone could help me with this: Quote:

$scfp = fsockopen("38.96.148.32", 9980, &$errno, &$errstr, 30);
if(!$scfp) {
$scsuccs=1;
echo''.$scdef.' is Offline';
}
if($scsuccs!=1){
fputs($scfp,"GET /admin.cgi?pass=$scpass&mode=viewxml HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: SHOUTcast Song Status (Mozilla Compatible)\r\n\r\n");
while(!feof($scfp)) {
$p


So after the script runs this is what I get Quote:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to 38.96.148.32:9980 (Connection timed out) in stats.php on line 25



Any ideas? Anyone? Please?
Any help would, er.. help.

Wow.

No Clue, this site runs on PHP 4, and it looks as though he is using a socket connection, which is something we do not use. The warning is saying that the function is timing out, which sounds like a connection error. I am sure you've seen Warnings on this site periodically when the site can't connect to the mySQL server. If it was a fatal error it wouldn't have done much of anything other than spit out a parse error.

Of course, PHP.net is down right now. Which makes this harder to research. I'll get back to you.
 

My first thought is to make sure the server he is trying to connect to at 38.96.148.32 has port 9980 open.

Also, a simple google search shows the syntax as $fp = fsockopen("www.example.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);

notice there are no '&' in the arguments $errno and $errstr.  I don't know if that makes a difference, as I know absolutely nothing about Perl, but it would in C so I thought I would mention it. 

Just wow.

Can you tell us what he is trying to do?

I'm kinda curious as to why he would be trying to establish a connection (socket) on that port if he is running a web server.

I think that PHP5 does not require the & to signify that the variable is being passed by reference (rather than by value), so the code should work the same either way.

That PHP seemed to work OK for me on a host with PHP 5.1.2, well it tried to connect but got an unauthorized error because I just made up a password.  Based on his error and mine my guess is this is not an issue of PHP4 vs PHP5.  There is a possibility that the new host the guy is using doesn't support outbound socket connections.

FYI, For those wondering this script is used to connect to a internet radio station site (ShoutCast server) and get the recent play list.