socket_connect Initiates a connection on a socket boolsocket_connect resourcesocket stringaddress intport Initiates a connection using the socket resource socket, which must be a valid socket resource created with socket_create. The address parameter is either an IP address in dotted-quad notation (e.g. 127.0.0.1), if the socket is of the AF_INET family; or the pathname of a Unix domain socket, if the socket family is AF_UNIX. The port parameter is only used when connecting to an AF_INET socket, and designates the port on the remote host to which a connection should be made. &return.success; The error code can be retrieved with socket_last_error. This code may be passed to socket_strerror to get a textual explanation of the error. See also socket_bind, socket_listen, socket_create, socket_last_error and socket_strerror.