Identify client PHP socket

[AntonZelenin]

Is there a way to assign some unique value to a php socket? By default they get id's starting from 1, then 2, 3 and so on. Could I assign the value I want to a new socket connection?
If no, how to identify specific user socket to send him a message? Just tell every connected user his temporary id and save it to database?

[requinix]

Is there a way to assign some unique value to a php socket? By default they get id's starting from 1, then 2, 3 and so on. Could I assign the value I want to a new socket connection?

What kind of "value" are you thinking about?

 

If no, how to identify specific user socket to send him a message? Just tell every connected user his temporary id and save it to database?

 

Going to need context for that.

[AntonZelenin]

What kind of "value" are you thinking about?

 

 

Going to need context for that.

Randomly generated value.. or maybe user id from database.

 

 

About context. For example, several users connected to my server. And now I see this:

print_r($this->clients);

Array

(

   [0] => Resource id #5

   [1] => Resource id #6

   [2] => Resource id #7

)

 

So I can't figure out who is who. That's why I've got a question if I could specify id for a new socket)

 

I could give you source code if needed:)

Edited June 17, 2017 by AntonZelenin

[AntonZelenin]

This piece of code accepts new sockets

$changed = $this->clients;

socket_select($changed, $null, $null, 0, 10);

if (in_array($this->socket, $changed)) {
     $socket_new = socket_accept($this->socket);
     $this->clients[] = $socket_new;

     $header = socket_read($socket_new, 1024);
     $this->perform_handshaking($header, $socket_new, $this->host, $this->port);

    $found_socket = array_search($this->socket, $changed);
    unset($changed[$found_socket]);
}

[requinix]

I'd probably just stick with array_search, then use the key as your identifier for use in a second array containing the additional data.