PHP TCP server example

tcp_server.php

<?php

$host = "127.0.0.1";
$port = 3000;
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");
  echo $input.PHP_EOL;
  $output = $input . "\n";
  socket_write($spawn, $output, strlen ($output)) or die("Could not write output\n");
  socket_close($spawn);
}

?>