Codeigniter and Real Time Applications

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Disclaimer: I work for Realtime.co.

You can try using Realtime (www.realtime.co). It provides you websocket support with transparent fallback to whatever the user browser supports (you don't have to worry about it yourself).

It works on the cloud so you don't need to worry about installing anything on your machine or your servers, it's plugin-free (users also don't have to install anything).

There's a free tier, meaning that you can register at Realtime.co, get your key on your email and start coding without having to pay anything.

Also, it provides APIs for a plethora of platforms such as .Net, PHP, Java, Android, iOS, Node.js, ActionScript, Windows Phone, etc., etc..

The latency is usually bellow 150ms and all communication goes through the Realtime.co cloud, meaning that your server bandwidth and resources are not impacted.

Hope I helped.