PHP Chess Server

PHP Ratchet WebSocket server using PHP Chess.

Documentation

Read the latest docs here.

Setup

Clone the chesslablab/chess-server repo into your projects folder as it is described in the following example:

git clone git@github.com:chesslablab/chess-server.git

Then cd the chess-server directory and install the Composer dependencies:

composer install

Create an .env file:

cp .env.example .env

Finally, you may want to add the following entry to your /etc/hosts file if running the PHP chess server on your localhost along with React Chess as per the REACT_APP_WS_HOST variable defined in the react-chess/.env.example file.

127.0.0.1       pchess.net

Run the Chess Server

The chess server comes in four different flavors and can be run using a PHP script.

Script	Description	Use
cli/testing.php	TCP socket.	Functional testing.
cli/dev.php	Simple WebSocket server.	Development.
cli/staging.php	Secure WebSocket server.	Staging.
cli/prod.php	Secure WebSocket server.	Production.

Functional Testing

Run the TCP socket server.

php cli/testing.php

Simple WebSocket Server

Run the simple WebSocket server if you are not using an SSL/TLS certificate.

php cli/dev.php

Staging

Before starting the secure WebSocket server for the first time, make sure to have created the certificate.crt and private.key files into the ssl folder.

Run the staging secure WebSocket server if you don't want to check the website's origin.

php cli/staging.php

This will allow any origin to send a request to it.

Production

Before starting the secure WebSocket server for the first time, make sure to have created the certificate.crt and private.key files into the ssl folder.

Run the secure WebSocket server to check the website's origin as defined in the WSS_ALLOWED variable in the .env.example file.

php cli/prod.php

This will allow the WSS_ALLOWED website to send a request to it.

Run the Chess Server on a Docker Container

Alternatively, the chess server can run on a Docker container.

Functional Testing

docker compose -f docker-compose.testing.yml up -d

Development

docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d

Staging

docker compose -f docker-compose.staging.yml up -d

Production

docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

Connect to the Secure WebSocket Server

Open a console in your favorite browser and run the following commands:

const ws = new WebSocket('wss://pchess.net:8443');
ws.send('/start classical fen');

License

The GNU General Public License.

Contributions

See the contributing guidelines.

Happy learning and coding!