README

A PHP library for asynchronously serving WebSockets. Build up your application through simple interfaces and re-use your application without changing any of its code just by combining different components.

Reviving Ratchet!

We're currently aiming to revive Ratchet to get it up to date with the latest versions and use this as a starting point for bigger updates to come. We need your help to achieve this goal, see ticket #1054 for ways to help out. ❤️

Requirements

Shell access is required and root access is recommended. To avoid proxy/firewall blockage it's recommended WebSockets are requested on port 80 or 443 (SSL), which requires root access. In order to do this, along with your sync web stack, you can either use a reverse proxy or two separate machines. You can find more details in the server conf docs.

Documentation

User and API documentation is available on Ratchet's website: http://socketo.me

See https://github.com/cboden/Ratchet-examples for some out-of-the-box working demos using Ratchet.

Need help? Have a question? Want to provide feedback? Write a message on the Google Groups Mailing List.

A quick example

<?php
use Ratchet\MessageComponentInterface;
use Ratchet\ConnectionInterface;

    // Make sure composer dependencies have been installed
    require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

/**
 * chat.php
 * Send any incoming messages to all connected clients (except sender)
 */
class MyChat implements MessageComponentInterface {
    protected $clients;

    public function __construct() {
        $this->clients = new \SplObjectStorage;
    }

    public function onOpen(ConnectionInterface $conn) {
        $this->clients->attach($conn);
    }

    public function onMessage(ConnectionInterface $from, $msg) {
        foreach ($this->clients as $client) {
            if ($from != $client) {
                $client->send($msg);
            }
        }
    }

    public function onClose(ConnectionInterface $conn) {
        $this->clients->detach($conn);
    }

    public function onError(ConnectionInterface $conn, \Exception $e) {
        $conn->close();
    }
}

    // Run the server application through the WebSocket protocol on port 8080
    $app = new Ratchet\App('localhost', 8080);
    $app->route('/chat', new MyChat, array('*'));
    $app->route('/echo', new Ratchet\Server\EchoServer, array('*'));
    $app->run();

$ php chat.php

    // Then some JavaScript in the browser:
    var conn = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:8080/echo');
    conn.onmessage = function(e) { console.log(e.data); };
    conn.onopen = function(e) { conn.send('Hello Me!'); };

Install

The recommended way to install this library is through Composer. New to Composer?

This will install the latest supported version:

composer require cboden/ratchet:^0.4.4

See also the CHANGELOG for details about version upgrades.

This project aims to run on any platform and thus does not require any PHP extensions and supports running on legacy PHP 5.4 through PHP 8.3+ with limited support for newer PHP. It's highly recommended to use the latest supported PHP version for this project.

See above note about Reviving Ratchet for newer PHP support.

License

MIT, see LICENSE file.