RealTime live notification Jquery PHP

Question

I'm tried to implementing a live notification which is like the facebook newsticker and the notifications(on top). I was wondering what's the good solution to archieve this. I implemented an chat application before which I fired AJAX GET request in certain time to archieve the realtime, but it seems not good. I checked facebook using firebug, there is no GET request fired(or it is hided?)

Now here is my scenarion:

In main.php I have a live ticker and a notifications button.

In bulletion.php and User.php When I perform an add user,it will go heading to the bulletin or user.php.

How can I get informed in main.php when bulletin.php,user.php successfully created in database?

I checked this question as well before I asked. notification system in PHP/jQuery Realtime and php?

I was wonder,what's is long poling Ajax and session-based notification.How it can be archieved? I know Node.js can be good in implementing realtime, can it combine with PHP? and memcached ?

Any can provide sources to refer or example might be good.Thank you.

Answer 1

As a side note, PHP isn't really the best language to use when it comes to push notifications, it's really built around typical get/response kinda flows.

I use PHP for all my page stuff, but when it comes to push notifications of any sort I really like http://www.nodejs.org/ and http://socket.io/ to go with it. They're very easy to get setup, and will play well with you using php for the majority of your work, then using node to deal with push notification kinda stuff.

Answer 2

Meteor is a comet server using PHP and JavaScript to push data to browsers. It's very slick and worth a look, although it may be a little hard to setup/implement.

Edit: Quick demo here

Answer 3

I've had much success with the server-sent events standard. It's very simple and works perfectly but it's only supported in modern browsers.

Answer 4

Have you thought about using HTML5 WebSockets? Have a look at EventSockets and the kickstart project on Github.