Workerman VS Ratchet

I remember a consulting gig where they were pushing 50k requests per second with PHP in a 2018 laptop by using this framework https://github.com/walkor/workerman

In a real application, with database connection pooling and auth sessions, it went down to 15k requests/s.

And that was PHP7. PHP8 introduced JIT so it's probably significantly faster these days and hopefully fully typed.

The code above is an example of creating a websocket server from the usage example on the workerman/workerman page on github.

Workerman

That's cute. I managed to get 100k requests per second on a single i7 CPU this week using standard blocking code with Workerman. Zero added cognitive load. It also does DB pooling, workers, sockets and consumes relatively lower memory than other solutions.

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