coderofsalvation/browser-stream

stream text to browser in realtime without using websockets or ajax.

dev-master 2015-08-19 10:33 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.4.0

BSD-3-Clause

• Coder of Salvation

README

Stream text to browser in realtime without using websockets. Think simple text progressbars, logging, longrunning tasks, terminal output etc.

Usage

$ composer require coderofsalvation/BrowserStream 

and then

	<?php
		
		use coderofsalvation\BrowserStream;

		BrowserStream::enable();
		BrowserStream::put("loading");

		for( $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++ ){
			BrowserStream::put(".");
			sleep(1);
		}
	?>

Now go to your browser and you'll see 'loading' and dots being added every second OH MY! :)

Test it with curl like so:

$ curl -H "Accept: text/event-stream" -N -s "http://localhost/foo.php"

Apache Gzip == no worky

Usually apache gzips the output of php. This is not good if you want realtime output. Therefore disable apache gzip buffering in .htaccess for a particular (realtime streaming) url like so:

	RewriteRule ^(yoururl)$ $1 [NS,E=no-gzip:1,E=dont-vary:1]

License

BSD