Lazy Pirate client in PHP

<?php
/*
* Lazy Pirate client
* Use zmq_poll to do a safe request-reply
* To run, start lpserver and then randomly kill/restart it
*
* @author Ian Barber <ian(dot)barber(at)gmail(dot)com>
*/

define("REQUEST_TIMEOUT", 2500); // msecs, (> 1000!)
define("REQUEST_RETRIES", 3); // Before we abandon

/*
* Helper function that returns a new configured socket
* connected to the Hello World server
*/

function client_socket(ZMQContext $context) {
echo "I: connecting to server…", PHP_EOL;
$client = new ZMQSocket($context,ZMQ::SOCKET_REQ);
$client->connect("tcp://localhost:5555");

// Configure socket to not wait at close time
$client->setSockOpt(ZMQ::SOCKOPT_LINGER, 0);
return $client;
}

$context = new ZMQContext();
$client = client_socket($context);

$sequence = 0;
$retries_left = REQUEST_RETRIES;
$read = $write = array();

while($retries_left) {
// We send a request, then we work to get a reply
$client->send(++$sequence);

$expect_reply = true;
while($expect_reply) {
// Poll socket for a reply, with timeout
$poll = new ZMQPoll();
$poll->add($client, ZMQ::POLL_IN);
$events = $poll->poll($read, $write, REQUEST_TIMEOUT);

// If we got a reply, process it
if($events > 0) {
// We got a reply from the server, must match sequence
$reply = $client->recv();
if(intval($reply) == $sequence) {
printf ("I: server replied OK (%s)%s", $reply, PHP_EOL);
$retries_left = REQUEST_RETRIES;
$expect_reply = false;
} else {
printf ("E: malformed reply from server: %s%s", $reply, PHP_EOL);
}
} else if(--$retries_left == 0) {
echo "E: server seems to be offline, abandoning", PHP_EOL;
break;
} else {
echo "W: no response from server, retrying…", PHP_EOL;
// Old socket will be confused; close it and open a new one
$client = client_socket($context);
// Send request again, on new socket
$client->send($sequence);
}
}
}