Top 7 PHP WebSocket Projects

Workerman

1 10,668 0.0 PHP

An asynchronous event driven PHP socket framework. Supports HTTP, Websocket, SSL and other custom protocols.

Project mention: Scaling to ~15K requests per second with Java – Part 1 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-14

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.
Ratchet

5 6,024 0.0 PHP

Asynchronous WebSocket server (by ratchetphp)

Project mention: Connecting to PHP using Apache's mod_proxy_wstunnel without using 3rd Party APIs | /r/codehunter | 2023-06-07

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?
Mergify

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hyperf

5 5,504 0.0 PHP

🚀 A coroutine framework that focuses on hyperspeed and flexibility. Building microservice or middleware with ease.

Project mention: Yii news 2023 issue 2 | /r/PHP | 2023-05-25
laravel-swoole

1 3,972 0.0 PHP

High performance HTTP server based on Swoole. Speed up your Laravel or Lumen applications.

Project mention: Why does Laravel need a "middleman" like Pusher or a separate Laravel Websockets server to be able to use Websockets? | /r/laravel | 2022-11-06

I played around with https://github.com/swooletw/laravel-swoole years ago, and it worked for a simple site I made to learn. You really need a long running process like Swoole provides. I have switched our apps to Octane instead of laravel-swoole so I lost that.
LaravelS

0 3,769 0.0 PHP

LaravelS is an out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole.
laravel-centrifugo

1 58 10.0 PHP

🚀 Centrifugo broadcast driver for Laravel

Project mention: Laravel Websockets vs Soketi vs Laravel Echo Server | /r/laravel | 2023-01-09
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0 52 0.0 PHP

An experiment with WebSockets and the human condition. (by g105b)
SonarQube

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-07-14.