sockets help

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Hi,

So I've been following a few tutorials on how to set up a php socket server. Seems to make sense. The only problem I'm having now is

I need to run the php file as a binary so that it's always running on my server. I opened up SSH and looked around. All the tutorials say to use this command:

 

$ /usr/local/bin/php -q server.php

 

On my server when I go into /usr/local/bin I don't have php in there. I found php under a few other bin folders, and tried the command.

When I hit enter, all that happens is the ssh client does nothing. Also I can't do any new commands.

 

I tried to connect to server with telnet, to see maybe it was working, but without success. Could someone please shed some light on what I'm looking for here?