PHP Ratchet socket client for sending data

Question

I am using a PHP Ratchet Socket server and I want to send data to this socket server via a php client. My socket server is working well with HTML 5 web sockets but php client isn't working. Here is my code

$host    = "localhost";
$port    = 9000;
$message = "Hello Server";
echo "Message To server :".$message;
// create socket
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die("Could not create socket\n");
// connect to server
$result = socket_connect($socket, $host, $port) or die("Could not connect to server\n");  
// send string to server
socket_write($socket, $message, strlen($message)) or die("Could not send data to server\n");
// get server response
$result = socket_read ($socket, 1024) or die("Could not read server response\n");
echo "Reply From Server  :".$result;
// close socket
socket_close($socket);

when I run this code nothing happens... Any help?

mitchken mitchken · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-08T11:26:31

You probably aren't looking for a PHP client for websockets but a pushserver. http://socketo.me/docs/push

On the site of socketo.me everything is explained on how to set this up. To give you a short summary:

A pushserver is the layer between your application logic and the websocket itself. This would provide you to send requests to the pushserver which are then sent to the clients of the websocket for which the message was meant.

If you need any further explaination please let me know.

PHP Ratchet socket client for sending data

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