How to Implement Push Notifcation in PHP

Question

I have been working with ajax for a while now, and I have used it to do a lot of nifty jobs.. But then my recent challenge has been on push notification.

I want to imple

Answer 1

Since WebSocket support isn't quite there yet, you would want to fall back on long polling. There already seems to be a jQuery plugin for this:

https://code.google.com/p/jquery-graceful-websocket/

A nice slide on this subject can be found here http://www.slideshare.net/ffdead/the-html5-websocket-api

To implement WebSockets in PHP, have a look at https://code.google.com/p/phpwebsocket/