Sending messages to all browsers with socket io

Question

I am messing around with socket.io and node.js, and was wondering how to accomplish the following: I have a simple form that sends a text string to the server, and the server se

Answer 1

Change

socket.emit('get_message',data);

To

socket.broadcast.emit('get_message',data);

To broadcast it to all connected users, except to the socket where you are calling the broadcast on.

If you also want to include that socket you can do

io.sockets.emit('get_message', data);