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bazo/tembo
==========

Send events to socket.io though PHP

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Since Jun 29Pushed 12y ago1 watchersCompare

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Tembo
=====

[](#tembo)

MIT Licensed - Copyright © 2013. Martin Bažík

About
-----

[](#about)

Tembo is a rough socket.io client written in PHP. Its goal is to ease communications between your PHP application and a socket.io server. Protocol version of socket.io currently supported is 1. Only websocket transport is available at the moment.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Sending messages

[](#sending-messages)

```
use Tembo\Message;
use Tembo\SocketIOClient;

$client = new SocketIOClient('http://localhost:8000');

$client->connect();

//send message
$client->message($message);

//emit event
$args = [...];
$client->emit($event, $args);

$client->disconnect();
```

### Listening to incoming messages

[](#listening-to-incoming-messages)

```
use Tembo\Message;

$callback = function($eventType, Message $message) {
	$eventName = $message->getName();
	$args = $message->getArgs();
};

$client->listen($callback);
```

Licence
-------

[](#licence)

This software is distributed under MIT License. See license.txt file for more info.

Special Thanks
--------------

[](#special-thanks)

Special thanks goes to Wisembly team authors of Elephant.io

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 65.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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