Simplest Push Approach

[fsa...@gmail.com]

Hi, I'm pretty new to Rachet/PHP - but have used websockets with Java.  I'd like to get a little advice on the simplest design for a small project (its for me only).  I have a single device that will be connecting to a local webpage (written with PHP backend).  I want to be able to "push" messages to the browser from a few external scripts (some in python, some shell scripts). 

My thought was to have a Rachet server running on port 8080 alongside the http server.  The JS in the client would connect to Rachet, Rachet would also receive messages (http gets) on port 8080 (or another port) process them and send the appropriate message back over the WS connection.  Problem is I'm not sure how to have PHP/Rachet receive the http messages and the WS connections.  Any tips?

[Bl...@kleinhansgroup.com]

Hey, I am also fairly new to Ratchet and web sockets in general. I'm currently updating my site to get away from all of the ugly AJAX calls I was sending back and forth. I learned a lot from the http://socketo.me/docs/hello-world page. What I have been doing is I copied the structure of the hello world example but instead of just sending strings I am sending JSON objects. On all of my objects I have a 'type' variable that I use to differentiate between things like a chat message and a status update. Now I don't know if this is the simplest design but it works for me.

Hope this helps,

Blake

[Mahesh Bhanushali]

On Thursday, 29 October 2015 20:31:41 UTC+5:30, fsa...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, I'm pretty new to Rachet/PHP - but have used websockets with Java.  I'd like to get a little advice on the simplest design for a small project (its for me only).  I have a single device that will be connecting to a local webpage (written with PHP backend).  I want to be able to "push" messages to the browser from a few external scripts (some in python, some shell scripts). 

My thought was to have a Rachet server running on port 8080 alongside the http server.  The JS in the client would connect to Rachet, Rachet would also receive messages (http gets) on port 8080 (or another port) process them and send the appropriate message back over the WS connection.  Problem is I'm not sure how to have PHP/Rachet receive the http messages and the WS connections.  Any tips?

Follow this link http://socketo.me/docs/hello-world,  and you need to install some dependencies to run socket server