fcm VS Ratchet

Check out the community-driven Laravel Notification Channels website if you want to use other channels, such as Telegram.

I've found it easiest to use firebase messaging through notifications using the following package: https://github.com/laravel-notification-channels/fcm

This ties in great to game development. Laravel makes it dead easy to send notifications via Discord, Email, SMS or several dozen other options as well.

This has been published as a part of the community driven Laravel Notification Channels, and allows you to send notifications into Google Chat Rooms, (part of Google Workspace, fka. G Suite)

As I was working with an application that needed to send sms notifications to new users signing up. Instead of using the built in Nexmo driver(which I havn't tried) or any of the great notification channels at https://laravel-notification-channels.com/. I of course, as any normal developer would :-), decided to write my own notification channel... 🙄

Using the AfricasTalking laravel-notification-channels

This one works well: https://github.com/laravel-notification-channels/fcm

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