Which is entirely why I have a disclaimer up top:
"Note: For many reasons PHP is not an optimal language choice for creating servers or daemons. I created this library so if you must use PHP for these things, you can do it with ease and produce great results. But if you have the choice, Java, Python, Ruby, etc, are all better suited for this."
But there are enough reasons to use PHP (and enough people doing it) that good libraries like this socket library (and the Daemon library I linked above) are a really valuable contribution to the PHP community.
I've written plenty of sockets based PHP programs that run reliably and were easy and efficient to create. I didn't come across any problems that weren't easily surmountable.
If you're going to propose an negative argument, it would be helpful to at least outline the basis on which you are making it.
Which is entirely why I have a disclaimer up top: "Note: For many reasons PHP is not an optimal language choice for creating servers or daemons. I created this library so if you must use PHP for these things, you can do it with ease and produce great results. But if you have the choice, Java, Python, Ruby, etc, are all better suited for this."
But there are enough reasons to use PHP (and enough people doing it) that good libraries like this socket library (and the Daemon library I linked above) are a really valuable contribution to the PHP community.