Level 1
This can be pretty simple!
See my answer at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48149304/6582385
Apr 11, 2017
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Level 1
Laravel Echo - Allow guests to connect to presence channel
I am using laravel-echo-server to run Laravel Echo to broadcast events.
I have a user counter channel which shows all the users on the app. For this I am using a presence channel. This works fine for logged in users, but guests just never get connected.
I've setup the below in the BroadcastServiceProvider:
Broadcast::channel('global', function () { return ['name' => 'guest']; });
Which from what I can tell, should allow everyone in as 'guests'. I'm guessing there's some middleware or auth that's being checked before this that I need to disable for this channel.
Any help on getting all clients joining this presence channel would be much appreciated!
Level 6
i finally managed to get it to work:
i often read about returning 'global' or some stuff when the /broadcasting/auth route gets called. What i really was missing the whole time was that i had to return something like this.
Route::post('/broadcasting/auth', function (Illuminate\Http\Request $req) { if ($req->channel_name == 'presence-global') { return Broadcast::auth($req); }
This produces the response pusher-js / laravel-echo expects for the guests to join a presence channel.
Hope that helps
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Level 8
Is there another possibility, to achieve that? I only want to allow guests for a specific channel. Not for all PresenceChannels
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