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PHP

Thorstein Nordby
Thorstein Nordby
17,115 Points
Posted by Thorstein Nordby
Thorstein Nordby
17,115 Points

Creating a live video streaming site with PHP

Hi everyone,

I have this passion project I am planning. It will be a live streaming site, not so different from e.g Creative Live or Twitch, but for a completely other niche of course.

I was thinking of doing it in Rails, but different sources have suggested that Rails is not being suited for sites like this. I know Creative Live uses PHP, Twitch use Rails.... Someone also suggested node.js, but I have no experience with it.

So I was thinking of doing it in PHP. It is relatively easy to learn. I was also thinking of using Ustream for the actual streaming.

Any chance you guys could push me in the right direction? Is there any PHP frameworks that are suited for a site like this?

I have never done something this big before, so I would love some input from people more experienced with PHP.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Thorstein;

Go with a framework with which you are comfortable programming. There is an interesting discussion/tutorial on this topic. It is really a broad subject and a PHP framework recommendation would be a challenge as they could all certainly do the job, just a matter if you like working in Zend, Symphony, Laravel, etc. Personally, Laravel makes the most sense to me so that is where I would head after learning as much as possible about how the video streaming works and what my PHP/MySQL portion needs to look like. It would probably be quite a bit of time with, gasp, paper and pencil doing much of the layout before to actual coding began.

Hope it helps,

Ken