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[s2828]

Can the client monitor messages and send heartbeats automatically at the same time?

[sirn-se]

Yes, by using the subscription flow with listeners.

Use onText() and possibly onBinary() to handle incoming messages. Then use onTick() to push ping messages to server at interval.

Something like this;

$client = new WebSocket\Client("ws://echo.websocket.org/");
$client
    // Add standard middlewares
    ->addMiddleware(new WebSocket\Middleware\CloseHandler())
    ->addMiddleware(new WebSocket\Middleware\PingResponder())
    // Listen to incoming messages
    ->onText(function (WebSocket\Client $client, WebSocket\Connection $connection, WebSocket\Message\Message $message) {
        // Act on incoming message
    })
    ->onBinary(function (WebSocket\Client $client, WebSocket\Connection $connection, WebSocket\Message\Message $message) {
        // Act on incoming message
    })
    // Called after every listener pass
    ->onTick(function (WebSocket\Client $client) {
        $client->ping();
    });
 $client->text("Initial message to server typically required");
 $client->start();