{"id":19338,"date":"2016-03-22T03:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T17:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=19338"},"modified":"2022-01-05T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:59:54","slug":"php-port-process-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/php-port-process-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Port Process Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHP Port Process Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

When there is a concept that somehow links hardware to software things fall into place better for me, personally, with understanding. For me, this is because hardware is that interesting thing out there that is more unknown, and so much more mysterious, to me, than software.<\/p>\n

One conduit to the hardware world, for me, then, is the concept of a port<\/a>, which is, to quote Wikipedia …<\/p>\n

\nIn computer networking, a port is an endpoint of communication in an operating system.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… linking the software, via networking principals, to hardware. So if there is a way to find an underlying operating system PID<\/a> (process identifier) associated with a designated port (number), then my ears prick up.<\/p>\n

What initially puts you off such an endeavour is that there is no way the Windows command line would have the same command as the Linux or unix command line to do this? Is there? Well, actually, there almost is, with netstat -an<\/i> but the lack of an “o” switch in Linux (or unix) is the reason this cannot be used … as “o” supplies a PID column to the result set. However Linux has alternatives with the lsof<\/a> command, so the project will be undertaken by PHP using its ever useful exec<\/a> method to …<\/p>\n