Parrot

An easy to use Facebook like long polling stack for PHP-based real-time applications

Demo

Demo app Demo app source

Requirements

• Redis
• PHP-FPM
• Nginx

Installation

composer require mrananyan/parrot:1.0.0

How setup

0. Configuration

If you want to connect via TCP (Recommended for remote server)

$parameters = [
                  'scheme' => 'tcp',
                  'host'   => '127.0.0.1',
                  'port'   => 6379,
              ];

If you want to connect via UNIX socket (Recommended if Redis on same server)

$parameters = [
                  'scheme' => 'unix',
                  'path'   => '/var/run/redis/redis.sock',
              ];

1. Worker. You can subscribe to many channels at once if you need. ('chanel1','chanel2' ...)

use Parrot\Server\Worker;

$parrotWorker = new Worker($parameters);
$messages = $parrotWorker->subscribe('myChanel');
echo json_encode($messages);

2. Publisher. Send message to users who subscribed to myChanel chanel

use Parrot\Client\Publisher;

$publisher = new Publisher($parameters);
$publisher->set('myChanel', 'Your message string here');