script bez fsockopen

Nešl by tento script vyřešit bez fsockopen ?????

 <?

   $server = "127.0.0.1";    

   $port = "3724";      

   $stav = fsockopen($server, $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);



   if(!$stav){ 

       echo "Realm status is:"." <font color=red><strong>Down!</strong></font>";

   } 

   else 

   {

       echo "Realm status is:" ." <font color=green><strong>Online!</strong></font>";

   }

?>