example

Elephant.io Example

This examples bellow shows typical Elephant.io usage to connect to socket.io server.

Available examples

Description	Server	Client	0X	1X	2X	3X	4X
Acknowledgement	serve-ack.js	ack.php	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Basic (listening event)	serve-basic.js	basic.php	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Sending and receiving binary data	serve-binary-event.js	binary-event.php	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Error handling	serve-error-handling.js	error-handling.php	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Authentication using handshake	serve-handshake-auth.js	handshake-auth.php	⛔️	⛔️	⛔️	✅	✅
Authentication using Authorization header	serve-header-auth.js	header-auth.php	⛔️	✅	✅	✅	✅
Keep alive	serve-keep-alive.js	keep-alive.php	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Polling	serve-polling.js	polling.php	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Custom path	serve2-custom-path.js	custom-path.php	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

Run server part first

Ensure Nodejs already installed on your system, then issue:

cd server
npm install
npm start

Run actual example

On another terminal, issue:

cd client
php binary-event.php

A log file named socket.log will be created upon running the example which contains the log when connecting to socket server.

Run example to target specific socket.io version

Install specific version of socket.io package, e.g. for socket.io 0x:

cd server
npm install socket.io@0

Run the example as shown above.