# Net_Socket - Network Socket Interface [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/pear/Net_Socket.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/pear/Net_Socket) Net_Socket is a class interface to TCP sockets. It provides blocking and non-blocking operation, with different reading and writing modes (byte-wise, block-wise, line-wise and special formats like network byte-order ip addresses). [Homepage](http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket/) ## Installation For a PEAR installation that downloads from the PEAR channel: `$ pear install pear/net_socket` For a PEAR installation from a previously downloaded tarball: `$ pear install Net_Socket-*.tgz` For a PEAR installation from a code clone: `$ pear install package.xml` For a local composer installation: `$ composer install` To add as a dependency to your composer-managed application: `$composer require pear/net_socket` ## Tests Run the tests from a local composer installation: `$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit` ## License BSD-2 license