Php Simple Websocket Code Your Own

I found phpwebsockets but it is outdated now and doesnt support the newest protocol.

By doing this, I was finally able to understand how the whole system works conceptually.

I had to read this thing a bunch of times before it finally started to sink in.

You will likely have to go back to this document again and again throughout the process, as it is the one definitive resource with correct, up-to-date information about the WebSocket API.

The following link helped me a lot here: ( original link broken ) Archived copy.

I recommend consulting it while looking at the WebSocket draft.

I just had to add some additional logic for handling the closing of connections, and I was done.

The good news is that I understand WebSocket really well now and I was able to make my own client and server scripts from scratch that work great.

Php Simple Websocket Code Your Own

Hopefully the culmination of all that information will give you enough guidance and information to code your own WebSocket PHP script.

As such, Ive found recently that its a lot easier to set up both ApachePHP and Node.js on your server and use Node.js for running the WebSocket server and ApachePHP for everything else.

Just make sure if you do that to set your WebSocket server up to be able to handle cross-origin requests.

I imagine it would run fairly well though, as theres no bloat in my code.

And since its open source you can see how the author has built this WebSocket solution using PHP.

Curl or similar, then node broadcasts a message thru websocket.

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