How can the issue of premature data transmission be resolved in PHP socket communication between servers?

Premature data transmission in PHP socket communication between servers can be resolved by implementing a protocol that includes message framing. This involves sending the length of the message before sending the actual message data. By doing this, the receiving server can properly read and process the entire message without encountering issues with premature data transmission. 

// Sender side
$message = "Hello, world!";
$messageLength = strlen($message);
$packedData = pack('N', $messageLength) . $message;
socket_write($socket, $packedData, strlen($packedData));

// Receiver side
$lengthData = socket_read($socket, 4);
$messageLength = unpack('N', $lengthData)[1];
$message = socket_read($socket, $messageLength);

Keywords

PHP socket communication data transmission servers premature

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