React/Gifsocket

"Real Time communication library using Animated Gifs as a transport™" - Alvaro Videla.

This is a PHP port of the very awesome gifsockets by Alvaro Videla. It is using React/Http for delivery.

Installation

Through composer.

Usage

First, start the example server:

$ php examples/stdin.php

Next, open up a browser and point it to localhost:8080. Now you can start typing stuff into the server window. Each line captured by STDIN will be converted to a GIF frame and streamed to the browser in Real Time (tm), also known as Netscape Time (tm).

Browser support

Good:

• IE6
• Safari
• Firefox

Bad:

• Opera

Non-existent:

• Chrome

License

MIT, see LICENSE.

Credits

• Alvaro Videla, for gifsockets
• László Zsidi, for the GifEncoder