Websockets?

[Sammaye]

I am still new to this subject so forgive any ignorance I possess.

Has Yii2 had any thoughts on accepting the websocket protocol?

I have found a number of projects in PHP like: http://socketo.me/ but of course it would mean re-implementing a bit of logic into that other framework and running effectively two distinct frameworks and composer projects side by side.

I found this on a Google search http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/40980-non-http-communication/ but seems a little inconclusive.

[antonkomarev]

That's not a best idea to use PHP as websocket server. But I'll give you an additional link for websocket PHP implementations: http://daemon.io/

[samdark]

And another link: http://reactphp.org/

[Sammaye]

I did actually see a self contained node.js server which could take PHP messages, though I cannot seem to find it again and didn't bookmark it. Nice links btw, didn't know about those.

So this is agreed that this is mostly an external thang?

[antonkomarev]

Yep, as I researched this question before, there are different implementations with Yii on GitHub exists.

Yii2 extension (developer recommend to not use it and use daemon.io):

• https://github.com/nizsheanez/yii2-websocket-application

And another one implementation with Yii1:

• https://github.com/morozovsk/websocket

[Sammaye]

I saw that first link as well, but to say it hasn't really got any documentation attached is an understatement so I didn't really try too hard with that one.

The second one is good, though of course it is Yii1

[antonkomarev]

I'd like to see more researches of websocket topic on the Yii cookbook, because it will be more and more popular.