[vrodic]

Unless you are using ReactPHP it's not really for real time apps.

[wolco]

I get the sense that Laravel will come out with an async option next year based on small clues I've been seeing. It will probably end up in 5.6.

I been porting over a game from node/express to phpsocket.io. I'm finding the async server more stable.

https://github.com/walkor/phpsocket.io