On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jim Lucas <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/12/2012 12:06 PM, BRIAN M. FITZPATRICK wrote: >> >> I've looked all over the net and I have been unable to find a concrete >> answer to this question. I am about to start development on a web >> application that will need to provide real-time updates of data to user's >> browsers. WebSockets are ideal for this task. >> >> I have read in some places on the net that PHP is not suitable for >> WebSockets due to it's nature. That WebSockets are designed for long running >> threads/processes which each maintain multiple event-driven connections, >> whereas PHP was designed around the short-lived single process procedural >> paradigm. >> >> Yet on the other hand I see lots of guides and libraries (such as >> http://socketo.me/) on the net that deal with PHP WebSockets. So I don't >> know what to think at this stage. Is PHP a suitable platform for developing >> a web application that requires WebSockets? >> > > > Back in 2007, I wrote a cli php script to run as a socket server for a game > I was playing at the time. It has been running on every server I've put > together since then. To say that PHP isn't suited to this type of service > is wrong. > > Give it a shot. Can't hurt to try. > > Jim > It works fine. There are many socket applications based on PHP. Just make sure to set the time limit [1] to 0, or your script will halt. - Matijn [1] http://www.php.net/set_time_limit -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
