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mrananyan/parrot
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A long polling stack for PHP-based real-time applications

1.0.1(3mo ago)04GPL-3.0-or-laterPHPPHP ^8.1

Since Mar 28Pushed 3mo ago1 watchersCompare

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Parrot
======

[](#parrot)

An easy to use Facebook like long polling stack for PHP-based real-time applications

[![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrananyan/parrot/main/logo.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrananyan/parrot/main/logo.png)

Requirements
============

[](#requirements)

- Redis
- PHP-FPM
- Nginx

Installation
============

[](#installation)

```
composer require mrananyan/parrot
```

How setup
=========

[](#how-setup)

1. Configuration

If you want to connect via TCP (Recommended for remote server)

```
$parameters = [
                  'scheme' => 'tcp',
                  'host'   => '127.0.0.1',
                  'port'   => 6379,
              ];
```

If you want to connect via UNIX socket (Recommended if Redis on same server)

```
$parameters = [
                  'scheme' => 'unix',
                  'path'   => '/var/run/redis/redis.sock',
              ];
```

1. Worker. You can subscribe to many channels at once if you need. ('channel1','channel2' ...)

```
use Parrot\Server\Worker;

$parrotWorker = new Worker($parameters);
$messages = $parrotWorker->subscribe('mychannel');
echo json_encode($messages);
```

2. Publisher. Send message to users who subscribed to mychannel channel

```
use Parrot\Client\Publisher;

$publisher = new Publisher($parameters);
$publisher->set('mychannel', 'Your message string here');
```

###  Health Score

41

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance81

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1777 days

Total

2

Last Release

99d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/80e13d7fca2f4414518a86608aa2449be024ee49d38a1a1c349a8511d08b956a?d=identicon)[mrananyan](/maintainers/mrananyan)

---

Top Contributors

[![mrananyan](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14540364?v=4)](https://github.com/mrananyan "mrananyan (3 commits)")

---

Tags

redisqueuerealtimelong-polling

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