Sets whether the socket connection should be blocking or not. A read call to a non-blocking socket will return immediately if there is no data available, whereas it will block until there is data for blocking sockets.

Parameter

boolean $mode - TRUE for blocking sockets, FALSE for non blocking

Return value

boolean - Returns TRUE on success, PEAR_Error on failure.

Throws

Table 33-1. Possible PEAR_Error values

Error code	Error message	Reason	Solution
`NULL`	"not connected"	There is no open connection.	You must establish a connection before ( Net_Socket::connect()).

Note

This function can not be called statically.

See

Net_Socket::isBlocking()

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