Networking

Summary

PHP’s networking capabilities won’t soon replace those tools already offered on the command line or other well-established clients. Nonetheless, as PHP’s command-line capabilities continue to gain traction, it’s likely you’ll quickly find a use for some of the material presented in this chapter.

The next chapter introduces one of the most powerful examples of how PHP can effectively interact with other enterprise technologies, showing you just how easy it is to interact with your preferred directory server using PHP’s LDAP extension.