It seems barely a month goes by without some potential threat to scupper an open source project, however unwittingly. Be it a major security flaw or patent infringement - the latter in this case is what has provoked this post. This time it is the
In this post we will explore how to expose PHP data to a Node application. We will build a simple hello world app to demonstrate this and then build a chat application where we can expose chat history from a database to users as well
To get the most out of this post an understanding and a basic knowledge of Node will really help. Websockets work in conjunction with server-side implementations of JavaScript for example Node. They work by establishing a tunnel between the server and the client. This tunnel remains