A PHP Library for serving multiple WebSocket services through a single port.
Normally, if you want to run multiple services, you would have to run WebSocket server on different ports. With DiffSocket, you can use a single port for different services.
composer require francium/diffsocket
Some hosting providers don't allow you to bind on multiple ports, especially if you're using a Free plan. An example is OpenShift.
I created DiffSocket, because my WebSocket server is hosted on OpenShift and needed a way to serve multiple WebSocket services through a single port.
These different services are provided through a single WebSocket port (ws-subins.rhcloud.com:8000) :
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DiffSocket uses Ratchet for the WebSocket server. You should learn Ratchet to create services.
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Configure server :
<?php $DS = new Fr\DiffSocket(array( "server" => array( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => "8000" ) ));
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To add a new service, create a class under namespace
Fr\DiffSocket\Service
SayHello.php
namespace Fr\DiffSocket\Service; use Ratchet\MessageComponentInterface; use Ratchet\ConnectionInterface; class SayHello implements MessageComponentInterface { public function onOpen(ConnectionInterface $conn){ echo "New Connection - " . $conn->resourceId; } public function onClose(ConnectionInterface $conn){} public function onError(ConnectionInterface $conn, $error){} public function onMessage(ConnectionInterface $conn, $message){ $conn->send("Hello"); } }
Then, you should register the service to DiffSocket by :
$DS->addService("say-hello", "path/to/SayHello.php");
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Then, add the code to run the server
$DS->run();
You may also add services as an array when the object is made :
$DS = new Fr\DiffSocket(array(
"server" => array(
"host" => "127.0.0.1",
"port" => "8000"
),
"services" => array(
"say-hello" => __DIR__ . "/services/SayHello.php",
"chat" => __DIR__ . "/services/Chat.php",
"game" => __DIR__ . "/services/GameServer.php"
)
));
Just add the service name in the URL as a GET parameter. Notice the use of /
before ?
:
ws://ws.example.com:8000/?service=say-hello
ws://ws.example.com:8000/?service=chat
ws://ws.example.com:8000/?service=game
An example in JavaScript :
var sayHelloWS = new WebSocket("ws://ws.example.com:8000/?service=say-hello");
var chatWS = new WebSocket("ws://ws.example.com:8000/?service=chat");
var gameWS = new WebSocket("ws://ws.example.com:8000/?service=game");
If the GET paramater service
is not passed or the value passed to it doesn't match any available services, then DiffSocket would refuse the connection and close it.