SocioChat

This is source code of SocioChat. The code is a bit rough in some places, lacking of tests, but pretty readable and managable.

SocioChat is licensed under the Apache Licence, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html).

The story

In the beginning of 2014 I was reading an article about ReactPHP and Ratchet. It looked really attractive and promising stack. At the same time I stumbled upon a yet another chat roulette. It was utilizing socionic theory about 16 types of information metabolizm (very close to MBTI) but appeared very buggy. It had all signs of poor code quality even without source code exposed. So if I decided to join that project it would result a complete rewrite. That's why SocioChat appeared as an alternative.

At first it had closed source code but one day I realized that it's really stupid to hide this work. Because maybe one day I'll exit the project and it will die without any useful contribution to society. So now thanks to that decision and GitHub, of course, you have an opportunity to learn something new and even influence to make the project better.

Features

• Very fast and full async websocket handling
• Adaptive markup via Twitter Bootstrap 3
• UI optimized to use with mobile devices
• HTML5 Notifications
• Silex framework (for typical web request handling)
• Partial multilanguage
• The concept "chat first - register later"
• Private chatting and personal banning
• Seamless reconnect on interruption of connection
• Flood protection
• Avatars
• Music player
• Rude filter
• Message history dumps to memcache

Installation

• At least PHP 5.5
• MySQL or PostgreSQL. Use phinx utility to apply migrations.
• Memcache
• Give write permissions to www/uploads/avatars
• PECL extension 'libevent' is recommended to achieve the best speed

sudo apt-get install libevent-dev
sudo pecl install libevent

Don't forget to enable this extension in php-cli

• Get composer and do in project root

$ php composer.phar update

to get all necessary libraries

• Configure web server (nginx/apache) for project host and edit conf/local.ini. This file overrides settings from default.ini. For example

db.name = chat
db.pass = 111
db.user = chat
db.scheme = pgsql
db.host = localhost

session.lifetime = 3600
session.timeout = 10
floodTimeout = 1
inviteTimeout = 10

logger =

domain.web = chat
domain.ws = ws://chat:8080
domain.protocol = http://

metrika = 0

• Run from project root with command for development purpose

php bin/chat-server.php

To start in daemon mode use

nohup php bin/chat-server.php &

See also nginx.conf