title: nodeJS and PHP (Laravel) integration for Socket.IO live chat
body: <p>Currently I have a website which I wrote on <strong>PHP</strong> via the <strong>Laravel framework</strong>. I have wrote a live chat using <strong>nodeJS</strong> with <strong>Socket.IO</strong> and <strong>Express</strong> and now what I want to do is to integrate it inside my already written Laravel website. The problem is the chat must be in the main page, which is currently rendered by the views of Laravel. Currently I am on a shared hosting.</p>
  
  <p><strong>The question:</strong>
  What are your best suggestions for such integration? I know that the LAMP stack comes ready in most shared domains but I have completely no idea how I am to get PHP(Laravel) and my nodeJS chat to work together.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Things I have tried:</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Elephant.IO - Didn't have any big success with it yet...</li>
  </ul>