Hey there fellow PHPers, it's been ages since I've posted, but my love of PHP hasn't dwindled in the least. A few months ago I decided to try to create an online game as a hobby project, and instead of jumping on the NodeJS bandwagon I decided to stick with the venerable LAMP stack anchored by PHP. The game isn't great by any means, but the bulk of its logic is stored in CodeIgniter models. That's right, CodeIgniter. You won't find any cool modern Symfony/Laravel framework here, just good ole CI. Anyway like I said the game itself is lacking in many respects (I'm not really an artist/designer), but I'm proud of the fact the backend is written PHP, forget those Node guys 😛
Here's the link if you feel like giving it a try: https://www.pakyra.com/. The client-side refreshes are handled by HTTP long polling instead of WebSockets, which is a bummer, but I think I have some old socket server code written in PHP laying around, so maybe v2 of the game will leverage some of that, and get away from the long polling technique. PHP4LIFE, son!!!
