Esysc / phpsocket

Example code for PHP WebSocket

phpsocket

An example WebSocket chat server written in PHP (using websocketd) with bi-directional communication between the client and server.

Installation

• Clone the repo phpsocket into your web root
• Ensure the web server can read/write to the file phpsocket/server/data.txt
• Download websocketd and unzip the binary websocketd to phpsocket/bin

Running The Example

The provided shell script phpsocket/start.sh will start the WebSocket server on port 8080. (The port can be changed by editing start.sh)

Once the WebSocket server is running, open your browser to http://localhost/phpsocket/

CTRL+c will stop the server

##Troubleshooting

websocketd will output any errors in server.php to the terminal.

License

MIT