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by rprime 3328 days ago
I assume NodeJS is used just as a WebSocket server for their real-time events, doing that in PHP would be a bit uncomfortable.
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icebraining 3328 days ago
doing that in PHP would be a bit uncomfortable.

Why? PHP works fine as a daemon, there are many servers written in pure PHP, as well as frameworks for "async" programming.

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Shorel 3328 days ago
It is uncomfortable, sadly. At the very least PHP Ratchet is not quite integrated with Laravel and the easy route is to use Node.

https://github.com/laravel/echo

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rprime 3326 days ago
I am not saying that as an attack to PHP (or a defense of NodeJS), I am writing PHP daily, but when it comes to real-time (at least WS systems), PHP would be my last resort, mostly because it lacks any real support for such things, you'll have to force your way in.

I guess we come back to _just because you can doesn't mean you should_. :)

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