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<refentry xml:id="function.socket-last-error" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>socket_last_error</refname>
  <refpurpose>Returns the last error on the socket </refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>int</type><methodname>socket_last_error</methodname>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type class="union"><type>Socket</type><type>null</type></type><parameter>socket</parameter><initializer>&null;</initializer></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   If a <classname>Socket</classname> instance is passed to this function, the last error which
   occurred on this particular socket is returned. If <parameter>socket</parameter> is
   &null;, the error code of the last failed socket function is returned.
   The latter is particularly helpful for functions like
   <function>socket_create</function> which don't return a socket on
   failure and <function>socket_select</function> which can fail for reasons
   not directly tied to a particular socket.  The error code is suitable to
   be fed to <function>socket_strerror</function> which returns a string
   describing the given error code.
  </para>
  <para>
   If no error had occurred, or the error had been cleared with
   <function>socket_clear_error</function>, the function returns <literal>0</literal>.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>socket</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       A <classname>Socket</classname> instance created with <function>socket_create</function>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   This function returns a socket error code.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="changelog">
  &reftitle.changelog;
  <informaltable>
   <tgroup cols="2">
    <thead>
     <row>
      <entry>&Version;</entry>
      <entry>&Description;</entry>
     </row>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
     &sockets.changelog.socket-param;
     <row>
      <entry>8.0.0</entry>
      <entry>
       <parameter>socket</parameter> is nullable now.
      </entry>
     </row>
    </tbody>
   </tgroup>
  </informaltable>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title><function>socket_last_error</function> example</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$socket = @socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);

if ($socket === false) {
    $errorcode = socket_last_error();
    $errormsg = socket_strerror($errorcode);
    
    die("Couldn't create socket: [$errorcode] $errormsg");
}
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="notes">
  &reftitle.notes;
  <note>
   <para>
    <function>socket_last_error</function> does not clear the error code, use
    <function>socket_clear_error</function> for this purpose.
   </para>
  </note>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>
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