Nodejs和PHP（客户端）

Question

I have created the server side for nodejs and from my web application (PHP), I can send data to the nodejs as it is output from the commandline. Now I need to implement the client side on my web application to listen to the server and output this data.

I have no idea how to do this the right way as I tried searching around for days and all I can find are articles on creating nodejs Server, no real world implementation example/tutorials. The nearest eexample I can find is http://goo.gl/zi2xqX where its using a setimeout function like so:

function load_tweets() {  
        $.getJSON("/stream", function(tweets) {  
            $.each(tweets, function() {  
                $("<li>").html(this.text).prependTo(tweet_list);  
            });  
            load_tweets();  
        });  
    }  

    setTimeout(load_tweets, 1000);  

Is this the correct way to retrieve data from nodejs server?

Answer 1

If you are using socket.io use something like this:

Server

io.sockets.socket(clientId).volatile.emit("requestName", data);

Client

socket.on("requestName", function (data) {
    //do stuff with data
});

This is assuming you have clients connecting and you are recording there connection Ids. If you don't, I recommend looking up some socket.io tutorials as there are much better ones out there than I can write.