# Wisembly/elephant.io

Ça trompe énormément

Repository: https://github.com/Wisembly/elephant.io
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/elephantio
Homepage: https://wisembly.github.io/elephant.io/
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-08-25T09:16:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5355, "days_push": 1469, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1165, forks 327 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:50.032681+00:00)

## What it is
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 It is distributed via Composer under the MIT license, though this original Wisembly repository is no longer maintained and development has moved to a separate organization.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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: websocket, http-client
- domain: web-development
- platform: php
- tags: socket.io-client, realtime, websocket-client, real-time, messaging

## Member repositories
- Wisembly/elephant.io (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:50.032681+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:29:20.330380+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Wisembly/elephant.io (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:50.032681+00:00, sha bdb4b619a048)
  - homepage: https://wisembly.github.io/elephant.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:35:12.834213+00:00, sha 3b550421a381)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.