reactphp/socket

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1287 stars · 158 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A PHP library providing asynchronous, streaming plaintext TCP/IP and secure TLS socket server and client connections for the ReactPHP ecosystem. It offers reusable interfaces for building non-blocking network servers and clients on top of ReactPHP's EventLoop and Stream components.

Use cases

• build an async tcp server in php
• create non-blocking socket client connections in php
• handle many concurrent network connections without blocking
• add a tls-encrypted socket server to a php application
• connect to a remote tcp service asynchronously with timeouts
• implement a custom binary protocol server in php
• use happy eyeballs dual-stack ipv4/ipv6 connection establishment in php

When to choose

• You are building event-driven, non-blocking TCP or TLS servers or clients in PHP
• You need to handle many simultaneous socket connections without process/thread spawning
• You are already using ReactPHP components such as the event loop and streams
• You need composable connector layers for DNS resolution, timeouts, TLS, or Unix domain sockets

When to avoid

• Your use case is a simple blocking script where plain fsockopen or cURL suffices
• You are building a standard HTTP API better served by a traditional PHP framework and web server
• Your team cannot work comfortably with callback/promise-based asynchronous code
• You need protocols outside TCP, TLS, or Unix sockets, such as raw UDP

Facets

library · maturity stable

networking concurrency networking backend php cross-platform async tcp tls sockets event-loop reactphp non-blocking socket-server socket-client streaming unix-domain-sockets happy-eyeballs ipv6

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