Pusher PHP Library

This is a very simple PHP library to the Pusher API (http://pusher.com). Using it is easy as pie:

require('Pusher.php');
$pusher = new Pusher($key, $secret, $app_id);

If you prefer to use the Singleton pattern usage is similar, but like this:

require('Pusher.php');
$pusher = PusherInstance::get_pusher();

Then call the appropriate function.

Trigger

To trigger an event on a channel use the trigger function.

$pusher->trigger('my-channel', 'my_event', 'hello world');

Note: You need to set your API information in Pusher.php

Arrays

Objects are automatically converted to JSON format:

$array['name'] = 'joe';
$array['message_count'] = 23;

$pusher->trigger('my_channel', 'my_event', $array);

The output of this will be:

"{'name': 'joe', 'message_count': 23}"

Socket id

In order to avoid duplicates you can optionally specify the sender's socket id while triggering an event (http://pusherapp.com/docs/duplicates):

$pusher->trigger('my-channel','event','data','socket_id');

Debugging

You can either turn on debugging by setting the fifth argument to true, like so:

$pusher->trigger('my-channel', 'event', 'data', null, true)

or with all requests:

$pusher = new Pusher($key, $secret, $app_id, true);

On failed requests, this will return the server's response, instead of false.

JSON format

If your data is already encoded in JSON format, you can avoid a second encoding step by setting the sixth argument true, like so:

$pusher->trigger('my-channel', 'event', 'data', null, false, true)

Authenticating Private channels

To authorise your users to access private channels on Pusher, you can use the socket_auth function:

$pusher->socket_auth('my-channel','socket_id');

Authenticating Presence channels

Using presence channels is similar to private channels, but you can specify extra data to identify that particular user:

$pusher->presence_auth('my-channel','socket_id', 'user_id', 'user_info');

Presence example

First set this variable in your JS app:

Pusher.channel_auth_endpoint = '/presence_auth.php';

Next, create the following in presence_auth.php:

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
if ($_SESSION['user_id']){
  $sql = "SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE id='$_SESSION[user_id]'";
  $result = mysql_query($sql,$mysql);
  $user = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
} else {
  die('aaargh, no-one is logged in')
}

$pusher = new Pusher($key, $secret, $app_id);
$presence_data = array('name' => $user['name']);
echo $pusher->presence_auth($_POST['channel_name'], $_POST['socket_id'], $user['id'], $presence_data);
?>

Note: this assumes that you store your users in a table called users and that those users have a name column. It also assumes that you have a login mechanism that stores the user_id of the logged in user in the session.

Channel Stats

It's also possible to get statistics about a channel from the Pusher REST API.

$stats = $pusher->get_channel_stats('channel-name');
$channel_occupied = $stats->occupied;

Channels list

It's also possible to get a list of channels for an application from the Pusher REST API.

$channels = $pusher->get_channels();
$channel_count = count($channels); // $channels is an Array

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