TechKnack

This post reveals two handy PHP constructs I’ve been using for a while now: a Socket class and a webpage-downloading function.
The files:

Socket.php (highlighted; plaintext)
webpage.php (highlighted; plaintext)

What good is a full-on Socket class and function, you may ask, when you can simply run file_get_contents with allow_url_fopen turned on? Well, consider that you want to send [...]