PHP Socket - How to re-use a socket connection?

Question

i've the following situation:

test.php > When that page is loaded i perform one post via Ajax to a second page (socket.php)

socket.php > That page, receives the ajax request, and i create a socket (via php) to connect to a server (this is working). Then i send the information back to the test.php

Back to test.php, after a user specific interation, i need to send another post/ajax to socket.php, and i need to use the same socket connection that i used before. But i trying and failing.

In order to re-use the socket connection, is that a way to send a socket type resource via post/ajax? Or store that value somewhere?

Ps.: I really new on socket programming. So, sorry about evetually mistakes.

Answer 1

In order to help future visitors...

After some research (and a lot of head ache), i stop to try re-use the socket connection using PHP.
Instead off i'm going to use WebSockets using JS. 'Cause it provides me a bi-directional communication, and a can re-use the connection as i want.