TalkPHP - Problem with sockets not closing

Hello my PHP gurus.

I have something for you to sink your teeth into.

let me show you my code im working with:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?PHP

/* Simple Socket Server v1.0 */



    // set some variables

    $host = gethostbyname(gethostname());

    $port = 9996;

    

    // don't timeout!

    set_time_limit(0);

    

    // create socket

    $socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die("Could not create socket\n");

        

    // bind socket to port

    $result = socket_bind($socket, $host, $port) or die("Could not bind to socket\n");

    

    // start listening for connections

    $result = socket_listen($socket, 3) or die("Could not set up socket listener\n");

    socket_set_block($socket);

    

    echo("Waiting for socket connection on " . $host . ":" . $port . "\n\r");

    

    // accept incoming connections

    // spawn another socket to handle communication

    

    $socketAccept = '';

    $socketAccept = socket_accept($socket) or die("Could not accept incoming connection\n");

    

    echo("Incomming connection accepted!\n\r");

    

    // Make a file to save incoming socket data to

    $randFileName = 'test_' . md5(mt_rand(0, 1000) ) . '.test';

    $inFileHandle = fopen($randFileName, 'wb');

    

    while(!$input == '')

    {

        // read client input

        $input = socket_read($socketAccept, 1024) or die("Could not read input\n\r");

        

        // save data to file

        fwrite($inFileHandle, $input, 1024);

    

    }

    

    // close file handle

    fclose($inFileHandle);

    

    echo("Socket file data read and saved to\n\r" . $randFileName . "\n\r");

            

    

    // shut down sockets

    /*

    socket_shutdown($socketAccept, 2);

    socket_shutdown($socket, 2);

    */

    

    // close sockets

    socket_close($socketAccept);

    socket_close($socket);

    

    echo("Sockets closed!\n\r\n\r");

    

    

?>

This script works the first time it´s run and my client script on another computer sends data and this server script saves it to a file. And all is well.

Now.. the problem is that when i want to run the server script again and try to send data to it with my client script. The client script gives the error that a connection on the server script is blocking the socket_write() function in my client script.

It would seem that the socket first opened the first run on the server script is still open and wont accept new connections.

I can´t get whats wrong. Im really looking for your advice.

By request i can post the client script also, but i don´t think its where the problem lies.

Sorry for the english :)

Note:
- I am running the script from Win7 command line via the php.exe executible.

Thank you in advance.