walkor/workerman

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11547 stars · 2249 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Workerman is an asynchronous, event-driven PHP framework for building high-performance socket servers supporting HTTP, WebSocket, SSL, and custom protocols. It includes timers, coroutines, connection pools, and process management, and runs as a long-lived multi-process application on POSIX systems.

Use cases

• build a websocket server in php
• real-time chat and instant messaging backend
• push notifications to clients from another web project
• high-concurrency tcp/udp socket server
• iot device communication and mqtt gateway
• replace php-fpm with a persistent php http server
• scheduled background tasks and async workers in php

When to choose

• you need persistent PHP processes handling thousands of concurrent connections
• you're building realtime features like chat, push, or live dashboards in PHP
• you want a fast PHP alternative to nginx+php-fpm for APIs
• you need custom TCP protocols or IoT device servers

When to avoid

• you need Windows production deployment (POSIX-only; Windows is dev-only)
• your team prefers traditional request-lifecycle PHP frameworks like Laravel/Symfony
• you need a fully managed serverless environment
• you're unwilling to manage long-running daemon processes

Facets

framework · maturity stable

websocket http-server web-framework concurrency scheduling message-queue rpc web-development backend iot networking apis bsd php cli self-hosted event-driven socket-server high-performance coroutines connection-pool tcp-server realtime-push php-daemon real-time messaging linux macos

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