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Anuj Ratnam
Anuj Ratnam

Reputation: 7

how to add real time chat with notifications in laravel project

I want to add real-time chat with notifications to my Laravel project. How can I do that and also save the chats in MySQL? Is there any chat framework that I can use??

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2797

Answers (1)

online Thomas
online Thomas

Reputation: 9401

Because the best way to implement a chat uses websockets, which are not supported by default in PHP you need a service like pusher or running a Laravel Echo server which is based on socket.io (a Node JS lib).

Pusher is something like "websockets as a service" and has a tutorial: https://blog.pusher.com/how-to-build-a-laravel-chat-app-with-pusher/

And then there is this demo: https://github.com/jplhomer/laravel-realtime-chat-demo

If you cannot run or pay for any of the previously mentioned websocket implementations, you could consider using long polling in javascript, but that is a worse solution. It takes more resources and works far less better. Web Chat Application using Long-Polling Technology with PHP,MySQL and jQuery

Upvotes: 2

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