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James Lawson
James Lawson

Reputation: 419

Web sockets to grab live data from my server

I'm wanting to push real time data to my website via web sockets. The data is basically just text saying "Artist - Title", it is generated via my Windows server that is streaming live constantly.

Can anybody point me in the right direction (i.e a manual/knowledge site) where I can read up on what will be required? Right now I have a PHP script that is pulling data from the MySQL database on my server, that then drops it onto my site as described above (Artist - Title) - obviously this doesn't accomplish what I want as it requires people to refresh the site every time they want to see what's currently being streamed, what I want is for it to just appear the second it starts playing on my server.

I've tried researching into web sockets with no prevail to what I want to accomplish. If anybody has the knowledge as to what I'm missing to make this work I would be most appreciative of your answer.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 948

Answers (1)

Richard Carls
Richard Carls

Reputation: 139

Consider running a Node.js server with socket.io. See socket.io chat app tutorial and it should become clear.

Basically you need JavaScript on your page to open the socket and respond to messages.

Upvotes: 5

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