Top 8 PHP WebSocket Projects

Workerman

6 10,937 8.6 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

12 6,153 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?

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
hyperf

10 5,938 9.7 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

3 4,022 2.6 PHP

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

0 3,806 6.6 PHP

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

1 68 1.9 PHP

🚀 Centrifugo broadcast driver for Laravel
text

1 53 0.0 PHP

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

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
chat-socket-server

1 10 3.5 PHP

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).