Need help with sockets

[Anon]

How can I...
1) accept multiple connections without forking?
2) use socket_read (from an incoming connection) and fgets (from an outgoing connection) at the same time? (as if proxying IRCs?)

thanks!

[Anon]

1) http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-accept.php

2) I don't get this question...

Diego

[Anon]

2) My script works like this.

IRC Server <-> PHP Script <-> Client

i'm using fsockopen and fgets commands to access the irc server, and socket_read to read from the client

as i know, socket_read will make the system stop there and wait for the user to input, what can I do to allow the script to recieve data from the irc server even when the system is waiting for input from the client?

thanks a lot

[Anon]

You do realize that the socket functions are experimental, right? And that they may change in the future?

Anyway, try using socket_setnonblock():

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-set-nonblock.php

Diego

[Anon]

Thanks a lot for your help
but... how to read from the 2 sockets when using unblocking mode?

[Anon]

What do you mean? You set the reading socket to non-blocking - you don't set the listening socket to non-blocking.

Diego

[Anon]

oh i see
then what will happen? will the system just bypass the line when no data is sent, or what?

[Anon]

I've never used it, and it's not documented, so I can't tell you exactly, but my guess is that it returns a empty string, i.e. ""

Diego