pusher

I have a mobile application where users can talk to each others via a chat (user to user only, not chatroom). Today, everything is synchronous. We are considering switching the solution to something more "real time", maybe using PubNub or Pusher. We are wondering about the best way to do it, given that our server will need to store every sent message. What we have in mind : Each mobile app would create a channel using user Id as the channel name. This channel would be used for mobile app / server communication. My problem is regarding the server, today we have a Nginx/PHP backend. We would

I'm having issues doing event broadcasting using Pusher from within an Eloquent event listener. My event are being fired and sent out from Laravel controller perfectly. However, it seems that the broadcasts are not actually reaching pusher when I trigger them from within my Eloquent event listener. The boot method of my app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php contains: MyModel::saving(function($record){ doSomeStuf(); // trigger event $pusher = \App::make('pusher'); $channel = $record->username; $pusher->trigger($channel, 'status-changed', $record); doSomeOtherStuf(); return true; }); The js file

How possible is it to get mysql database changes to be pushed to a an admin screen without admin interaction using pusher ? Can pusher run some kind of listener for changes on the mysql or will pusher simple do some kind of fancy polling? All in all how would such a setup be coded? A simple example or a link would be very much appreciated. Invoke PubNub PUSH Message via MySQL Trigger on UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE ⚠️ Warring! this may cause slowdowns on your database. This will introduce relatively poor performance given sys exec'ing curl for every insert. Far better to also have a trigger write