This is a small part of my script.. EVERYTHING works except
for the read.. and that works soon as I take out the
non_blocking, however my script doesnt work properly then so
thats not a valid solution..

The writeout is just a write that allows me to specifiy a
single connection or in this case "all" which sends to all..
That works.. but the read.. never returns anything, its like
its not buffering input and holding it in the socket till I
can read it.

function newlogins() {
    global $connectbuff, $sock, $buffcount, $logonmess;
    if (($connectbuff[$buffcount] = accept_connect($sock)) >
-1) {
        writeout ($connectbuff[$buffcount], $logonmess);
        $send = "You are the " . $buffcount . " player to
log on\n";
        writeout ($connectbuff[$buffcount], $send);
        $send = "Enter a username : ";
        writeout ($connectbuff[$buffcount], $send);
        $buffcount++;
    }

        read($connectbuff[0],$buff,4096);
    writeout($connectbuff,$buff,"all");
}