LARAvel + CENTrifugo = Laracent

Centrifugo broadcast driver for Laravel 6

Introduction

It is fork suitable for laravel 6 of Centrifugo broadcaster for laravel >= 5.7 is fork of centrifuge-broadcaster, based on:

• LaraComponents/centrifuge-broadcaster
• centrifugal/phpcent

Changenotes

• predis/predis removed from dependencies
• Removed all code, related to Redis
• Updated public functions code in accordance with new version of Centrifugo API

Requirements

• PHP 7.3+ or newer
• Laravel 6 or newer
• Centrifugo Server 2.1.0 or newer (see here)

Dependencies

• guzzlehttp/guzzle

Installation

Require this package with composer:

composer require mintermania/laracent

Open your config/app.php and add the following to the providers array:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    AlexHnydiuk\Laracent\LaracentServiceProvider::class,

    // And uncomment BroadcastServiceProvider
    App\Providers\BroadcastServiceProvider::class,
],

Open your config/broadcasting.php and add new connection like this:

    'centrifugo' => [
        'driver' => 'centrifugo',
        'secret'  => env('CENTRIFUGO_SECRET'),
        'apikey'  => env('CENTRIFUGO_APIKEY'),
        'url'     => env('CENTRIFUGO_URL', 'http://localhost:8000'), // centrifugo api url
        'verify'  => env('CENTRIFUGO_VERIFY', false), // Verify host ssl if centrifugo uses this
        'ssl_key' => env('CENTRIFUGO_SSL_KEY', null), // Self-Signed SSl Key for Host (require verify=true)
    ],

Also you should add these two lines to your .env file:

CENTRIFUGO_SECRET=very-long-secret-key-from-centrifugo-config
CENTRIFUGO_APIKEY=long-secret-apikey-from-centrifugo-config

These lines are optional:

CENTRIFUGO_URL=http://localhost:8000
CENTRIFUGO_SSL_KEY=/etc/ssl/some.pem
CENTRIFUGO_VERIFY=false

Don't forget to change BROADCAST_DRIVER setting in .env file!

BROADCAST_DRIVER=centrifugo

Basic Usage

To configure Centrifugo server, read official documentation

For broadcasting events, see official documentation of laravel

A simple client usage example:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use AlexHnydiuk\Laracent\Laracent;

class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    public function home(Laracent $centrifugo)
    {
        // Send message into channel
        $centrifugo->publish('channel-name', [
            'key' => 'value'
        ]);

        // Generate connection token
        $token = $centrifugo->generateConnectionToken('user id', 'timestamp', 'info');

        // Generate private channel token
        $apiSign = $centrifuge->generatePrivateChannelToken('client', 'channel', 'timestamp', 'info');

        // ...
    }
}

Available methods

Name	Description
publish(string $channel, array $data)	Send message into channel.
broadcast(array $channels, array $data)	Send message into multiple channel.
presence(string $channel)	Get channel presence information (all clients currently subscribed on this channel).
presence_stats(string $channel)	Get channel presence information in short form (number of clients).
history(string $channel)	Get channel history information (list of last messages sent into channel).
history_remove(string $channel)	Remove channel history information.
unsubscribe(string $channel, string $user)	Unsubscribe user from channel.
disconnect(string $user_id)	Disconnect user by it's ID.
channels()	Get channels information (list of currently active channels).
info()	Get stats information about running server nodes.
generateConnectionToken(string $userId, int $exp, array $info)	Generate connection token.
generatePrivateChannelToken(string $client, string $channel, int $exp, array $info)	Generate private channel token.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.