[ealmiladi]

Okay, I honestly have been sitting up for years trying to figure out this problem.

Basically, I have a Flash AP and I'm sending packets to that ap, but for some odd reason, my packets are combining and not sending when I want to send them.

When a user X's out of the ap in Flash, my PHP socket server picks it up and sends a message to all the other clients that have the Flash ap that this person Xed out, but it's not sending the message until an update from the Flash ap is sent to the server and when that happens, the packets get combined and nothing works.

$buf="SEND_REMOVE|$read_sockets[$index]";
socket_write($client2, $buf, strlen ($buf)) or die("Could not write output\n");

now that's supposed to send the packet right there and then.. but it doesn't

it will EVENTUALLY send the packet, but not until the location to where it's sending sends a packet to the server and then the server responds by sending 2 packets combined into 1.. it may sound confusing, but it's really messed up

please let me know if anyone can help

[infinitylimit]

Your going to have to show full page code for people to be able to understand what is going on. The code you showed and your prose didn't lead me to any conclusions only guesses.

[ealmiladi]

http://pastecode.org/73

[fyrestrtr]

What kind of socket are you opening? Sounds like your socket drops unless the client initiates a connection.

[UnrealEd]

a TCP/IP, as you can see in the socket_create function:

PHP Code:

socket_create ( AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP ); 

[fyrestrtr]

I can offer some hints; but without any proper debug of the network traffic, it is difficult to know for certain what is the issue.

TCP is connection initiated and has a wait period; and generally is only used when acknowledge of receipt is necessary. The long and the short of it is, TCP needs to wait for a connection to be established between the client and server, before it can start sending packets. I suspect that this is the problem with your application; could be a lot of other things; but this is the first thing I would look it. You really need to analyze some packets to figure out where exactly the problem is (I'm assuming it is not that you have tripped over some obscure bug in PHP and the issue is with TCP).

However; you really should be using UDP and not TCP in this situation as you need immediate send; but not necessarily acknowledgment of receipt. Try switching to UDP and see if that changes the situation.