This code could be very helpfull...The following code is for the "server". It listen for a message until CTRL-C<?phpwhile (true){receive_message('127.0.0.1','85',5);}function receive_message($ipServer,$portNumber,$nbSecondsIdle){ $socket = stream_socket_server('tcp://'.$ipServer.':'.$portNumber, $errno, $errstr); if (!$socket) { echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n"; } else { while ($conn = @stream_socket_accept($socket,$nbSecondsIdle)) { $message= fread($conn, 1024); echo 'I have received that : '.$message; fputs ($conn, "OK\n"); fclose ($conn); } fclose($socket); }}?>The following code is for the "client". It send a message, and read the respons...<?phpsend_message('127.0.0.1','85','Message to send...');function send_message($ipServer,$portServer,$message){ $fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://$ipServer:$portServer", $errno, $errstr); if (!$fp) { echo "ERREUR : $errno - $errstr<br />\n"; } else { fwrite($fp,"$message\n"); $response = fread($fp, 4); if ($response != "OK\n") {echo 'The command couldn\'t be executed...\ncause :'.$response;} else {echo 'Execution successfull...';} fclose($fp); }}?>