on the server side i got
socket.on(\'chat\', function (data) {
io.sockets.socket(data.clientid).emit(\'chat\', {
msg: data.msg,
senderid : se
I'd suggest sending over a username (make sure it's unique) and keeping an object of client ids associated with usernames in memory.
It turns out I can just use socket.id of the user sending through a msg to get their clientid, such as:
socket.on('chat', function (data) {
io.sockets.socket(data.clientid).emit('chat', {
msg: data.msg,
senderid : socket.id
});
});
Originally I thought I could just fetch the clientid by doing :
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
clientid = socket.id;
But clientid will be the last person who connected in this instance, not the last person who sent through a chat