What are the best practices for handling continuous data streams from a socket server in PHP?

Handling continuous data streams from a socket server in PHP requires using non-blocking I/O operations to prevent the script from hanging while waiting for data. One approach is to use the stream_select function to check for incoming data on the socket and read it when available. 

$socket = stream_socket_client('tcp://127.0.0.1:8000');
stream_set_blocking($socket, 0);

while (true) {
    $read = [$socket];
    $write = null;
    $except = null;

    if (stream_select($read, $write, $except, 0) > 0) {
        $data = stream_socket_recvfrom($socket, 1024);
        if ($data === false || $data === '') {
            break;
        }
        // Process the incoming data here
        echo $data;
    }
}

fclose($socket);

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