This problem only exists with fread, fget which multiple examples in the docs use and the docs list as "See Also" functions.

However by using stream_socket_recvfrom this problem was resovled.. This function is not at this time referenced in the manual other in the functions list so might easily overlooked as I did.

One possible issue I do see, stream_socket_recvfrom looks to work because it pulls everything in the buffer up to X bytes regardless of any EOL character. On a slow single line entry settup this shouldn't be a problem and everything should work fine..

Under high load when data ends up being buffered at both sides this function would return only partial "blocks" of what a user might expect and the user would need to program his own internal buffering that checks for EOL.

This should be covered in more detail in the online manual.

Please be more specific in what the problem is.
Note:

- PHP fgets() is line based and binary safe, changing it would break things.  It only returns lines, or the last partial line before the socket (or file) is closed.

- If you want to break lines on multiple different characters, you need to code your own buffer handling yourself.  See stream_socket_select() for a way to avoid blocking and writing multiplexing socket servers.

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.0-win32-latest.zip

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