Chat Server

Simple socket server (and javascript client) to create a chat app

This is a proof of concept about a simple socket to communicate several clients with each others and send messages.

Components

• Ratchet: PHP framework to create web socket.
• Redis: Database management to storage client session information.

Install and execute

You only need to execute app/index.php. It could be in background mode.

For example

# nohup php index.php > chat.log 2>&1 &

Javascript client

Configure a web server (Nginx or Apache) and make the public folder as root directory. It contains a web client to connect and test the socket server.

Android client

I have written also a simple Android client that uses this socket to connect with other users.