Push support

[CupOfTea696]

Is there any way to push a message to the client from another script? If there is, could you update the readme with an example? Thanks!

[Mulkave]

@CupOfTea696 What do you mean by another script? Something from Javascript for example?

[CupOfTea696]

@Mulkave no I mean from another php script. Like, minion is running as a Websocket Server, and somewhere else on your application an http request gets made that triggers an action (like creating a news item), is it possible to push a message to the Websocket Server from that script?

• User A is online, connected to WS server
• User B posts a news item
• PHP notifies WS server news item was created (push)
• WS server notifies user A a new news item is available.

[Mulkave]

definitely. It has to do with the channel that you're connecting to. Basically when user A is online, they should register to the messages that are expected to be published by the provider as in this example https://github.com/Vinelab/minion#provider-classes.

Or did I misunderstood your example?

[CupOfTea696]

I think you did, yes. In this case, User B is not connected to the Websocket Server. So from my backend PHP code, after creating the News item, can I then send a message to the running Minion instance from my PHP code?

Basically I'm trying to do something like this example.

[NeoVance]

Pretty late to the party...sorry. There is no simple answer to this question unfortunately. There are a ton of methods that you could use to do this. Here are a few:

1. Your PHP script can create a Thruway client, or a minion client to connect to the same realm, and publish to a topic that the minion has subscribed to.
2. Configure your WAMP Router (like Crossbar) to publish to a topic using HTTP requests and use an HTTP request to publish to a topic your minion is subscribed to.
3. You can use a message or task queue like RabbitMQ or Beanstalkd which your minion will pull from.
4. Your minion can open a file, or unix socket to read from which your PHP script will write to.
5. The script can insert a row of data to a database which is queried by the minions.