This is wild... PHP server with electron client.. I'm genuinely impressed. It's ...

solcloud · 2024-10-22T19:26:17 1729625177

thank you for kind words :)

doctorpangloss · 2024-10-22T19:12:09 1729624329

“Make games that are fun to make.”

fefferkorn · 2024-10-23T15:57:58 1729699078

Yeah, same,.. Real time game server written in PHP is really interessting. I also know PHP from the old days and now only from certain CMS systems, but not realtime projects. Im amazed! Nice! :)))

Sincere6066 · 2024-10-26T02:25:03 1729909503

electron eh? pass.

treflop · 2024-10-23T05:43:00 1729662180

You could have actually made this 15 years ago! As a kid I pretty much only knew PHP and Visual Basic so I made CLI servers in PHP (…lol)

You could make asynchronous servers using socket_select(), which was added in PHP 4.1.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php

There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy.

diggan · 2024-10-23T12:16:10 1729685770

> There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy.

Reminds me of ReactPHP (no, not that React) that allowed you to do non-blocking I/O in PHP back in like 2012-2013 sometime. Maybe that's the library you're referring to actually?

https://github.com/reactphp/reactphp

treflop · 2024-10-23T14:36:27 1729694187

I mean actual threads.

Seems they still have the docs up: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php

calvinmorrison · 2024-10-23T00:28:02 1729643282

Php is basically runtime Java these days. It's so much better than ye olden days

ARandomerDude · 2024-10-23T01:27:09 1729646829

> Php is basically runtime Java these days

I don't know enough about PHP to understand this comment. Can you elaborate?

mikeweiss · 2024-10-23T02:35:08 1729650908

I think they're just saying its a lot like Java if Java was a interpreted language and not a compiled language.

bilekas · 2024-10-23T06:40:02 1729665602

Might you call it JavaScript? /s

meiraleal · 2024-10-23T11:09:17 1729681757

Thanks God, no. PHP has the clumsiness of Java but JavaScript is cool.

divan · 2024-10-23T11:52:19 1729684339

WAT? [1]

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

calvinmorrison · 2024-10-23T12:54:45 1729688085

wow this is hilarious.

we have a linter that bitches anytime anyone uses php's empty. In fact, php has tons of these weird behaviours mostly masaradng as trying to be helpful