PHP - TCP/IP fsockopen - php

Question

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this before. I'm trying to write a simple script that will continously read data from the TCP/IP stream but for some reason or another the script reads in a bunch of data, writes it out and then just stops.
$fp = fsockopen("xxxx", 3000, $errno, $errstr, 5);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 128)."\n";
fflush($fp);
}
fclose($fp);
}
I'd like it to have a constant flow to it, rather then echo out a bunch of data then wait 30 seconds and output a bunch more data. Anyone have any ideas?
---- EDIT ----
ZMQ Code
include 'zmsg.php';
$context = new ZMQContext();
$client = new ZMQSocket($context, ZMQ::SOCKET_DEALER);
// Generate printable identity for the client
$identity = sprintf ("%04X", rand(0, 0x10000));
$client->setSockOpt(ZMQ::SOCKOPT_IDENTITY, $identity);
$client->connect("tcp://xxxx:3000");
$read = $write = array();
$poll = new ZMQPoll();
$poll->add($client, ZMQ::POLL_IN);
$request_nbr = 0;
while (true) {
// Tick once per second, pulling in arriving messages
for ($centitick = 0; $centitick < 100; $centitick++) {
$events = $poll->poll($read, $write, 1000);
$zmsg = new Zmsg($client);
if ($events) {
$zmsg->recv();
echo $zmsg->body()."\n";
//printf ("%s: %s%s", $identity, $zmsg->body(), PHP_EOL);
}
}
$zmsg = new Zmsg($client);
//$zmsg->body_fmt("request #%d", ++$request_nbr)->send();
}

Answer 1

Here is how you connect to a server (as a client) if your goal is ONLY to PULL data (read).
<?php
$context = new ZMQContext();
$sock = new ZMQSocket($context, ZMQ::SOCKET_PULL);
$sock->connect("tcp://ADDRESS:3000");
while (true)
{
$request = $sock->recv(); # recv is blocking by default, no need to put timers.
printf ("Received: %s;%s", $request, PHP_EOL);
}
?>
if you want to reply, you'll need to use a pair socket (ZMQ::SOCKET_PAIR), then you can use:
$sock->send("data to send");
Also, if instead of you connecting to clients, clients connects to you, use the bind method instead of connect.
EDIT: use the PUSH socket type on the other side if you use the pull here, else, use the pair socket on both sides.