Standalone functionality

Calling start(true) will immediately start the event loop

Author: valzargaming

.gitignore

@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ Thumbs.db
 composer.lock
 *.cache
 /json
+verify.json

run.php

@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
     $envConfig['HOST_ADDR'] . ':' . $envConfig['HOST_PORT']
 );
 
-$server->init(null, true);
+$server->init(null, true); // Standalone without an event loop or ReactPHP server
 $server->setLogger(true);
 $server->start();

src/Server.php

@@ -72,14 +72,15 @@ public function init(?LoopInterface $loop = null, bool $stream_socket_server = f
      * 
      * This method sets up an event-driven server to handle incoming client connections.
      */
-    public function start(): void
+    public function start(bool $start_loop = false): void
     {
         if (! $this->initialized) {
             $this->init();
         }
         if (! $this->running) {
             if ($this->server instanceof HttpServer) {
                 $this->server->listen($this->socket);
+                if ($start_loop) $this->loop->run();
             } elseif (is_resource($this->server)) {
                 $this->running = true;
                 while ($this->running) {