PHP: Ways to read from a socket?

[Joe[x86]]

I'm creating a Battle.net binary bot (UJZP), and I'm trying to figure out how to go about receiving data from the socket. I don't want to put the entire thing into an infinite loop (unless I can fork that loop, and continue to do other stuff), but I don't know how to use timers either.

Does anyone know how I'd go about doing this?

[Warrior]

Well the recieve is blocking so just whenever you expect to get data back call the recv function socket_read (iirc) and wait for it to return then parse whatever data is returned in the function.