Chat and Client Sockets

Hello Well I created a chat server in c++ but now working on making the client into the game now and well for a normal c++ console client this would be the code

string ClientSocket::checkForIncomingMessages()
{
	// Define a string with a blank message
	string receivedMessage = "";

	// Poll for messages for a specified time (default: 10ms, so 100 times per second)
	int activeSockets = SDLNet_CheckSockets(socketSet, ClientSocket::SOCKET_SET_POLL_PERIOD);

	// This produces a LOT of debug output, so only uncomment if the code's really misbehaving...
	//if (debug) { cout << "There are " << activeSockets << " socket(s) with data on them at the moment." << endl; }

	if (activeSockets != 0)
	{
		// Check if we got a message from the server
		int gotMessage = SDLNet_SocketReady(clientSocket);

		if (gotMessage != 0)
		{
			int serverResponseByteCount = SDLNet_TCP_Recv(clientSocket, pBuffer, bufferSize);

			if (debug)
			{
				cout << endl << "Got message: " << pBuffer << " (" << serverResponseByteCount << " bytes)" << endl;
			}

			if (serverResponseByteCount != 0)
			{
				receivedMessage = toString(pBuffer);

				// If we've received the shutdown signal set the flag appropriately
				if (receivedMessage == ClientSocket::SHUTDOWN_SIGNAL)
				{
					if (debug) { cout << "Setting shutdownClient to true" << endl; }

					shutdownClient = true;
				}
			}
			else // If we've received a 0 byte message from the server then we've lost the connection!
			{
				// ...generate a suitable error message...
				string msg = "Lost connection to the server!";

				// ...and then throw it as an exception!
				SocketException e(msg);
				throw e;
			}

		} // End of if (gotMessage != 0) section

	} // End of if (activeSockets != 0) section

	// Return the message, whether the actually is a message, or whether it's blank
	return receivedMessage;
}

but for torque I'm not sure how to receive information from the server, any help would be appreciated.

So far The game can connect to the server and read when I send information but the client cant read the information yet Im not sure how to go by that.