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oncesk/elephant.io
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Send events to socket.io though PHP

v2.0.3(11y ago)610.8k72GPLPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Aug 5Pushed 10y ago2 watchersCompare

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Elephant.io
===========

[](#elephantio)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/16cd997a404e71e1698cc99cc65b1b9d7a1e2bd9077821f1b5824826a2d70cb0/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f576973656d626c792f656c657068616e742e696f2e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/Wisembly/elephant.io)

MIT Licenced - Copyright © 2012. Wisembly

About
-----

[](#about)

Elephant.io 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.

Licence
-------

[](#licence)

This software is distributed under MIT Licence. See LICENCE for more info.

Contributors
------------

[](#contributors)

Author: Ludovic Barreca

Mainteners: Guillaume Potier Gabriel Majoulet

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

[](#special-thanks)

Special thanks goes to Mark Karpeles who helped me a bit to understand the way websockets works.

###  Health Score

36

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LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community21

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 52.9% 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 ~179 days

Recently: every ~213 days

Total

6

Last Release

4183d ago

Major Versions

v1.0.0-alpha → v2.0.0-alpha2012-09-17

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdcc1b117f672628d10c2e085daeb4947215428c0abdf6fbfeba4d2fcb947f6b?d=identicon)[oncesk](/maintainers/oncesk)

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Top Contributors

[![guillaumepotier](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/496234?v=4)](https://github.com/guillaumepotier "guillaumepotier (18 commits)")[![oncesk](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2046092?v=4)](https://github.com/oncesk "oncesk (11 commits)")[![mieszko4](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3238370?v=4)](https://github.com/mieszko4 "mieszko4 (2 commits)")[![blub0hr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4029791?v=4)](https://github.com/blub0hr "blub0hr (1 commits)")[![gmajoulet](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1492044?v=4)](https://github.com/gmajoulet "gmajoulet (1 commits)")[![tpae](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/189663?v=4)](https://github.com/tpae "tpae (1 commits)")

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Tags

websocketnodejsSocket.io

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