Amp VS Ratchet

If you want async/await behavior in PHP, you have https://amphp.org/amp/.

We're working on Amp v3 making heavy use of fibers as shipped in PHP 8.1. We're releasing beta versions for each library currently, and we'd like to share our new amphp/pipeline library. If you're waiting for concurrent I/O without boilerplate, you can start testing now. We're happy about feedback on the new major releases!

like the sibling comment said, web apps are written in Symfony/Laravel, but the framework abstractions with web apps might not paint you a clear picture of how the core language has improved. it will give you a good idea what it's like to build applications.

my favorite part of modern PHP is how nice writing libraries is. so it might not be what you're looking for, but I remember being pretty impressed with the code quality of the Amp PHP library recently. the v3 branch is 8.x only and (I believe) is targeting the Fibers feature just introduced in 8.1

https://github.com/amphp/amp/tree/v3

1) Do we must need to use some 3rd Party APIs or Libraries like Ratchet, PHP-Push-WebSocket or PHP WebSocket to enable PHP to communicate over WebSocket protocol?

I am using http://socketo.me/ to create the socket server.

Sockets: https://github.com/reactphp/socket WebSocket: https://github.com/ratchetphp/Ratchet

Have you considered using web sockets? Check out Ratchet PHP http://socketo.me/. Once the client and server make a connection your server can send notifications to the client while that connection is open.

How should I implement these functions? I am successful with using this documentation to implement basic websocket functions. However, I am still unable to subscribe to a channel/topic. The code is long so I put a github question here. Hope that you can help me with this.

You can do native websockets with PHP, but it's not straightforward with Laravel. Laravel Echo helps handle the client-side of websockets, but you need to manage the server side on your own.

Nice work. I have something similar I built on Ratchet, I looked at Socket.io in the early days but shelved plans to run a Node backend. Your front end looks a lot more appealing than mine does. ;)

However, the websockets server is based on a php package http://socketo.me/ , and sometimes that mini-app goes down without warning, leaving the chat to fallback to an old-school chat-archive. Even monitoring and being certain that the chat websocket server is -up- isn't obvious.

Hello, I have just start to learn web socket in php but I have one issue I would use a secure web socket for https pages but one their website: https://socketo.me They use a class, MyChat but vscode doesn’t find it. Does anybody know ? Thanks

Which implementation would you like? * http://socketo.me/ * https://amphp.org/websocket-client/ * https://www.swoole.co.uk/docs/modules/swoole-websocket-server