troymccormick / laravel-pkr

Laravel Websocket Poker is currently a work in progress. I am starting it as a simple game of heads up Texas Hold'em poker with the goal to allow you to host multi-table tournaments through the system with a robust admin panel and admin controls while playing the game.

Laravel Websocket Poker

About

Laravel Websocket Poker is currently a work in progress. I am starting it as a simple game of heads up Texas Hold'em poker with the goal to allow you to host multi-table tournaments through the system with a robust admin panel and admin controls while playing the game.

I'm @mccormick_troy or you can email me directly ([e-mail]) if you have any trouble getting setup!

Current Feature Overview

• HTML5 Websocket powered (via a PHP websocket class)

  Laravel artisan task runs the server with complete logs

• Very simple heads up poker

  Any player can start a game to play against someone else

• Lobby and game chat

  Players may chat with everyone in the lobby, or just their opponent in their own game

Installation

The installation of Laravel Websocket Poker is much the same as Laravel. Simply extract the contents of this project to your web root, point a virtual host to the public folder as you would for a new install then:

• Open application/config/application.php

Make any necessary changes (fully documented in the source)

• Open public/_resources/js/main.js

Make any necessary changes (fully documented in the source)

Finally, start the server with php artisan server and you are ready to play!

Future Plans

• Minor graphic improvement like displaying chips instead of text for pot and current stake
• Complete multi-table tournaments
• Customizable blinds structure and starting chips
• Full admin interface behind the scenes and while playing
• Different implementation of Websockets (Ratchet?)
• Make the layout work for mobile devices (somewhat close now)

Thanks

Thanks to the following who provided their code open source for my use!

• Laravel - AMAZING PHP framework
• Twitter Bootstrap - Dead simple responsive layouts
• jQuery - Dead simple javascripting
• Texas Hold'em Evaluation Class - Ugly code, but gets the job done (maybe rewrite this?)
• Flynsarmy - PHP Websocket Class - Super easy websocket server that works perfectly for me
• Card Images (I'm very sorry, but I've forgotten where I've found these card images. If you know the author, or are the author, please let me know so I may properly credit you!)