# EventHttp::accept

(PECL event >= 1.2.6-beta)

EventHttp::accept — Makes an HTTP server accept connections on the specified socket stream or resource

### Description

public EventHttp::accept ( mixed `$socket` ) : bool

Makes an HTTP server accept connections on the specified socket stream or resource. The socket should be ready to accept connections.

Can be called multiple times to accept connections on different sockets.

> Note:

> To bind a socket, `listen` , and `accept` connections on the socket in s single call use EventHttp::bind() . EventHttp::accept() is needed only if one already has a socket ready to accept connections.

### Parameters

`socket`

  Socket resource, stream or numeric file descriptor representing a socket ready to accept connections.

### Return Values

Returns `TRUE` on success. Otherwise `FALSE`.

### Examples

Example #1 EventHttp::accept() example

`<?php
$base = new EventBase();
$http = new EventHttp($base);
$addresses = array (
8091 => "127.0.0.1",
8092 => "127.0.0.2",
);
$i = 0;
$socket = array();
foreach ($addresses as $port => $ip) {
echo $ip, " ", $port, PHP_EOL;
$socket[$i] = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
if (!socket_bind($socket[$i], $ip, $port)) {
exit("socket_bind failed\n");
}
socket_listen($socket[$i], 0);
socket_set_nonblock($socket[$i]);
if (!$http->accept($socket[$i])) {
echo "Accept failed\n";
exit(1);
}
++$i;
}
$http->setCallback("/some-page", function() {
echo "(some-page)\n";
echo "URI: ", $req->getUri(), PHP_EOL;
$req->sendReply(200, "OK");
echo "OK\n";
});
$http->setDefaultCallback(function($req) {
echo "URI: ", $req->getUri(), PHP_EOL;
$req->sendReply(200, "OK");
echo "OK\n";
});
$signal = Event::signal($base, SIGINT, function () use ($base) {
echo "Caught SIGINT. Stopping...\n";
$base->stop();
});
$signal->add();
$base->dispatch();
echo "END\n";
// We didn't close sockets, since Libevent already sets
// CLOSE_ON_FREE and CLOSE_ON_EXEC flags on the file
// descriptor associated with the sockets.
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

    Client:
    $ nc 127.0.0.1 8091
    GET /about HTTP/1.0
    Connection: close

    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    Connection: close

    Server:
    127.0.0.1 8091
    127.0.0.2 8092
    URI: /about
    OK

### See Also

- EventHttp::bind() - Binds an HTTP server on the specified address and port