how would I go about creating a simple socket.IO chat?

Question

how would I go about creating a simple socket.IO chat?

So I've been looking at socket.IO and I've stumbled upon some problems. I'm trying to create a WebSocket based chat but It seems that I can't find how I would go about creating a chat where the client is hosted on a different server than the socket.io server. I have a PHP based client that needs to connect to the server but I basically want to know how I can connect to a external socket.IO websocket server.

javascript
node.js
socket.io

Answer 1

I would follow this really great tutorial to start with.

At this line of code:

033 socket = io.connect("http://localhost:3000");

Replace with your server address.