note 112299 added to sockets.examples

A big thanks to javier,javiern at gmail dot com. This was exactly what I was looking for. I have taken the liberty to translate some of the text. I hope you don't mind... #!/usr/bin/env php <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); /* Allow the script to wait for connections. */ set_time_limit(0); /* Enable implicit dump and see what estimate is obtained while waiting. */ ob_implicit_flush(); $address = '127.0.0.1'; $port = 8011; if (($sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP)) === false) { echo "socket_create() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error()) . "\n"; } if (socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) === false) { echo "socket_bind() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error($sock)) . "\n"; } if (socket_listen($sock, 5) === false) { echo "socket_listen() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error($sock)) . "\n"; } //clients array $clients = array(); do { $read = array(); $read[] = $sock; $read = array_merge($read,$clients); // Set up a blocking call to socket_select if(socket_select($read,$write = NULL, $except = NULL, $tv_sec = 5) < 1) { // SocketServer::debug("Problem blocking socket_select?"); continue; } // Handle new Connections if (in_array($sock, $read)) { if (($msgsock = socket_accept($sock)) === false) { echo "socket_accept() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error($sock)) . "\n"; break; } $clients[] = $msgsock; $key = array_keys($clients, $msgsock); /* Send instructions. */ $msg = "\nWelcome to the PHP Test Server. \n" . "You are the customer number: {$key[0]}\n" . "To exit, type 'quit'. To shut down the server type 'shutdown'.\n"; socket_write($msgsock, $msg, strlen($msg)); } // Handle Input foreach ($clients as $key => $client) { // for each client if (in_array($client, $read)) { if (false === ($buf = socket_read($client, 2048, PHP_NORMAL_READ))) { echo "socket_read() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error($client)) . "\n"; break 2; } if (!$buf = trim($buf)) { continue; } if ($buf == 'quit') { unset($clients[$key]); socket_close($client); break; } if ($buf == 'shutdown') { socket_close($client); break 2; } $talkback = "Customer {$key}: You said '$buf'.\n"; socket_write($client, $talkback, strlen($talkback)); echo "$buf\n"; } } } while (true); socket_close($sock); ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 41.133.203.135 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/sockets.examples.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/112299 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112299/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112299/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112299/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112299/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112299/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112299/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112299 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/112299 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php