in reply to sharing variables with threads

Even if you could share sockets like that (I don't think you can), every client that connected would replace the $client variable, you can't have more than one client connection referred to by the same variable.

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Re: Re: sharing variables with threads
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2003 at 01:53 UTC
    would it work if i shared the $line variable, so that everyone would see what everyone is typing?
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      No, you are not going to be able to do it the way you are attempting, you will have to keep a list of client connections, and every time you get a line from one client, go through the list and send it to every other client. This would actually work better without threads, using a server that sets all the clients to be non-blocking.

      We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!
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        i was thinking of doing it that way, but i didnt exactly know what i would be grabbing, i figured it would just be throwing the $client variable into an array each time a new connection was made, but when i tried it it didn't work.
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