Are you as crazy as me when developing WebSocket applications ? It’s so awesome to work with WebSockets that will blow up your mind and irritate you at the same time.

WebSockets can be used for any real time applications such as :

• Games
• Chat
• News
• File Transfer

And because it’s impact is so vast, we can develop as many applications as we want. But, a problem arises for freebies like me and you.

Everyone must have heard of Pi, the irrational number that never ends. It goes by this :

3.14159265...

I have been learning about Pi since I was in 8th grade. All the time in school, I was curious about to which Pi extends.

Now, I know the extend – Infinity :P. I dedicated my precious Christmas vacation for finding the useless value of Pi.

Why ? Curiosity. Simply, the curiosity made me want to do this. Besides, it’s always fun to do something interesting.

WebSocket is one of the awesomest part of the HTML5 and we developers should experiment with it as it will be the future of client to server communication.

In a recent post, I made a tutorial of live chat with WebSockets and PHP. It was the basic step into websockets. But, I have created another chat which is more advanced that has the capability to upload images as well as record audio from microphone of the user. It’s somewhat like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.

With the introduction of HTML5, a new technology was evolved in 2011 called WebSockets. This technology enables live connection with the server even after the page finished loading. It’s a better, replaceable version of AJAX for client to server communication in the background.

With WebSocket technology, its possible to have a direct communication between server and client without any interruption and faster data transmission.

So, to demonstrate this to me and for you, We’re going to create a live group chat with PHP, jQuery with the help of WebSockets.