Write real-time web applications with XMPP, PHP, and JavaScript
I’ve written a tutorial for writing XMPP-based web applications over at IBM DeveloperWorks:
Real-time web applications are networked applications, with web-based user interfaces, that display Internet information as soon as it’s published. Examples include social news aggregators and monitoring tools that continually update themselves with data from an external source. In this tutorial, you will create Pingstream, a small notification tool that uses PHP and JavaScript to communicate over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), a set of XML technologies designed to support presence and real-time-communications functionality.
You can read the whole tutorial here. IBM have made it a featured article, commenting, “bet you have it up and running before lunch.” I hope you find it useful. (And don’t forget to check out my introduction to Activity Streams, also written for IBM.)
Photo: IBM by antonfortunato, released under a Creative Commons license.
