/ The international PHP Conference Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:00:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 /talk/keep-your-users-up-to-date-in-realtime-with-websockets/ Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:42:34 +0000 /?post_type=talk&p=543 Live document collaboration, playing cooperative and competetive games, updating sports scores, booking seats. Stateless and belated nature of HTTP requests is not a perfect match for these and other similar use cases. WebSockets offer immediate delivery of messages in two-way communication between the client and the server. Instead of periodic polling for new messages, they are pushed to the receiver over TCP/IP connection. Implementing WebSockets is not limited to technologies like node.js but has also been possible in PHP for quite some time with impressive results. In this talk, I will introduce this technology and tell the audience how to successfully adopt it in their PHP applications while avoiding problems and pitfalls.

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