How to keep a php web socket connection open after first connection - php

Question

I'm using the following code as the server for sockets while i'm trying to learn sockets, but the client code will work once, i have to run the server script every time before i run the clint code.
And so when do i ran this server.php to keep listening for client requests?
SERVER.PHP
$host = "127.0.0.1";
$port = 25003;
set_time_limit(0);
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die("Could not create socket\n");
$result = socket_bind($socket, $host, $port) or die("Could not bind to socket\n");
$result = socket_listen($socket, 3) or die("Could not set up socket listener\n");
$spawn = socket_accept($socket) or die("Could not accept incoming connection\n");
$input = socket_read($spawn, 1024) or die("Could not read input\n");
if ($input == "Hey"){
$input = "Hey you don't shout me. Talk properly...";
} else if ($input == "Vetra"){
$input = "Hello how are you there, whats your name?";
} else { $input = "Well, what can i say, you must be a human being.";
}
echo $input;
$output = $input . "\n";
socket_write($spawn, $output, strlen ($output)) or die("Could not write output\n");
//socket_close($spawn);
//socket_close($socket);
CLIENT.PHP
$host = "127.0.0.1";
$port = 25003;
$message = $_POST['data'];
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die("Could not create socket\n");
$result = socket_connect($socket, $host, $port) or die("Could not connect to server\n");
socket_write($socket, $message, strlen($message)) or die("Could not send data to server\n");
$result = socket_read ($socket, 1024) or die("Could not read server response\n");
echo $result;
//socket_close($socket);

Answer 1

You should waiting for new connections in infinite loop:
$host = "127.0.0.1";
$port = 25003;
set_time_limit(0);
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die("Could not create socket\n");
$result = socket_bind($socket, $host, $port) or die("Could not bind to socket\n");
$result = socket_listen($socket, 3) or die("Could not set up socket listener\n");
while(true) {
$spawn = socket_accept($socket) or die("Could not accept incoming connection\n");
$input = socket_read($spawn, 1024) or die("Could not read input\n");
if ($input == "Hey"){
$input = "Hey you don't shout me. Talk properly...";
} else if ($input == "Vetra"){
$input = "Hello how are you there, whats your name?";
} else {
$input = "Well, what can i say, you must be a human being.";
}
echo $input.PHP_EOL;
$output = $input . "\n";
socket_write($spawn, $output, strlen ($output)) or die("Could not write output\n");
socket_close($spawn);
}