library pusher-client

tokenly/pusher-client

A library

A client component for the client-side messaging pusher service., _(*1)

Installation

• composer require tokenly/pusher-client
• Add Tokenly\PusherClient\Provider\PusherClientServiceProvider::class to the list of service providers

Environment Variables

Set the following environment variables, _(*2)

• PUSHER_SERVER_URL (optional, defaults to https://pusher.tokenly.com)
• PUSHER_CLIENT_URL (optional, defaults to the server URL)
• PUSHER_PASSWORD (required for Tokenly services)

Server-side Usage

Send an event

$channel = 'my-event-channel-name';
$data = json_encode(['fromUser' => 'fred', 'messageId' => 101, 'messageText' => 'hello world!']);

$pusher = app(\Tokenly\PusherClient\Client::class);
$pusher->send($channel, $data);

Client-side Usage

See the pusher-client.js example for the client javascript code., _(*3)

Step 1: Include the two libraries

This is best toward the end of your body tag., _(*4)

<script src="https://pusher.tokenly.com/public/client.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/js/pusher-client.js"></script>

Step 2: Subscribe and respond to events

After the two script tags below are loaded, you can subscribe to a channel, _(*5)

<script>
    var subscribedClient = PusherClient.subscribeToPusherChanel('my-event-channel-name', function(dataReceived) {
        // received a websocket message on channel /my-event-channel-name
        console.log('user '+dataReceived.fromUser+' said '+messageText);
    });
</script>