note 105735 modified in ref.sockets by danbrown

After many non-sleep nights I got the most simple multi-client server written in PHP that really works. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V... use as command line to test it. Enjoy it. <?php ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); ini_set('display_errors', 1); // Set time limit to indefinite execution set_time_limit (0); // Set the ip and port we will listen on $address = '10.203.9.67'; $port = 6901; // Create a TCP Stream socket $sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); // Bind the socket to an address/port socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) or die('Could not bind to address'); // Start listening for connections socket_listen($sock); // Non block socket type socket_set_nonblock($sock); // Loop continuously while (true) { unset($read); $j = 0; if (count($client)) { foreach ($client AS $k => $v) { $read[$j] = $v; $j++; } } $client = $read; if ($newsock = @socket_accept($sock)) { if (is_resource($newsock)) { socket_write($newsock, "$j>", 2).chr(0); echo "New client connected $j"; $client[$j] = $newsock; $j++; } } if (count($client)) { foreach ($client AS $k => $v) { if (@socket_recv($v, $string, 1024, MSG_DONTWAIT) === 0) { unset($client[$k]); socket_close($v); } else { if ($string) { echo "$k: $string\n"; } } } } //echo "."; sleep(1); } // Close the master sockets socket_close($sock); ?> --was-- After many non-sleep nights I got the most simple multi-client server written in PHP that really works. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V... use as command line to test it. Enjoy it. <?php ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); ini_set('display_errors', 1); // Set time limit to indefinite execution set_time_limit (0); // Set the ip and port we will listen on $address = '10.203.9.67'; $port = 6901; // Create a TCP Stream socket $sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); // Bind the socket to an address/port socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) or die('Could not bind to address'); // Start listening for connections socket_listen($sock); // Non block socket type socket_set_nonblock($sock); // Loop continuously while (true) { unset($read); $j = 0; if (count($client)) { foreach ($client AS $k => $v) { $read[$j] = $v; $j++; } } $client = $read; if ($newsock = @socket_accept($sock)) { if (is_resource($newsock)) { socket_write($newsock, "$j>", 2).chr(0); echo "New client connected $j"; $client[$j] = $newsock; $j++; } } if (count($client)) { foreach ($client AS $k => $v) { if (@socket_recv($v, $string, 1024, MSG_DONTWAIT) === 0) { unset($client[$k]); socket_close($v); } else { if ($string) { echo "$k: $string\n"; } } } } //echo "."; sleep(1); } // Close the master sockets socket_close($sock); http://php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php