Wisembly/elephant.io

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1165 stars · 327 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Elephant.io is a websocket client written in PHP that lets PHP applications communicate with real-time servers, with built-in support for Socket.io 0.x, 1.x, and 2.x engines. It is distributed via Composer under the MIT license, though this original Wisembly repository is no longer maintained and development has moved to a separate organization.

Use cases

• send real-time events from a PHP backend to a socket.io server
• emit websocket messages from cron tasks in PHP
• push notifications from a PHP REST API to connected clients
• integrate socket.io communication into a legacy PHP application
• connect a PHP script to a Node.js real-time server

When to choose

• your stack is PHP and you need to emit events to a Socket.io 1.x or 2.x server
• you need a lightweight, MIT-licensed socket.io client without JavaScript
• you are maintaining a legacy project already built on this library

When to avoid

• you need active maintenance or support for Socket.io 3.x/4.x - use the newer ElephantIO/elephant.io fork instead
• you need persistent long-lived websocket connections from PHP - this was experimental and not recommended
• your project is not PHP-based

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

websocket http-client web-development php socket.io-client realtime websocket-client real-time messaging

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