apps.bzzt.no | My just-for-fun web application

apps.bzzt.no is a PHP library. apps.bzzt.no has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

This is just a showcase web application. Used for testing ideas for client/server interaction. The client is HTML5 and Javascript augmented by jQuery, Bootstrap, WebSockets and some pink fairy dust. On the server side, CodeIgniter (PHP) with the REST_Controller extension provides the REST resources. The REST_Controller has been slightly extended to provide a convenient means for publishing info and request progress information for REST resources that take time to return. To provide support for asynchronous communication, node.js serves a WebSocket server, and two ZeroMQ (0MQ) queues. The first queue is a push-pull queue that lets anything on the server push events to the hub. The hub then publishes the events to the second, pub-sub queue. This queue lets any thread subscribe to any event type/topic. Each WebSocket client can send in "subscribe" messages, which makes the client's server thread subscribe to the corresponding event type in the pub-sub queue. Each subscribed message from the queue is then immediately sent to the client over the WebSocket, where the client code runs a handler function for that message type.