Hookbox: Real-time Web with WebSocket/Comet and Webhooks
cometdaily.comShort Version: Hookbox is a message queue built specifically for browser clients. Whenever a client connects, subscribes, publishes, etc. Hookbox makes a Webhook request (HTTP callback) to obtain permission for the action from the web application (PHP, Django, etc.) All server-side app logic therefore remains within the web framework/language.
Very cool stuff, hopefully.
To quote the beginning of the "What about my web app?" section
This ten step tutorial shows how a client can interact with Hookbox.
Adding web app integration is also trivial.
I experimented with these ideas with my project "Hotdot" (http://github.com/clemesha/hotdot), which is mostly a "big example", not a framework or whatever.
Hotdot uses Orbited (which was originally authored by Michael Carter, and who is also the author of Hookbox). Michael did contact me with the Hookbox project a while back, and it looks as though he has made significant progress on the project since.
The NOLOH PHP Framework includes Comet out of the box without any work or configuration. A brief video on this can be found from the Confoo Web Conference this past March, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0FR0Dx4zE.
This includes support for streams, long-polling, and short-polling. Like everything else in NOLOH, this comes out of the box for all browsers.
A dedicated comet section will be added to noloh.com later in the summer with more examples, demos, and whitepapers.
Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH
That’s just targeted at users who plan to use Noloh and PHP to write their applications, right?
Saw a demo of this at the last jquery meetup, very cool stuff, and the guy demoing it actually coded a live chat app from scratch so everyone could see how its done. The fact that they also have a hosted solution for people to try hacking against gives them a big a+ in my book. Great job.
Right now I'm getting the error "Error establishing database connection" are they being overloaded?
Seems so, at least it's the database which failed and not the web server. A web server failure on a site covering real-time web servers news would be too weird.
This is very cool. I'd like to see it hooked into a web app though.