Group Video Chat App with PHP Laravel and JavaScript

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Overview

This application is a highly scalable group video calling application built using PHP Laravel and Metered Video SDK.

Guide

To learn how this application is built you can read the blog post here: Building a Group Video Chat App with WebRTC, PHP Laravel and Javascript

Setup Requirements

You need a Metered Domain and Secret Key to run this application, if you don't have one then you can follow the steps below to obtain it:

1. Signup for a free account at https://www.metered.ca
2. After Signup go to Dashboard -> Developers to find your Metered Domain and Secret Key.

You also need to have PHP Laravel and its dependencies installed, if you don't have them installed already then follow the guide here and install them first: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x#your-first-laravel-project

Setting up the Project

1. Clone the project repo

git clone [email protected]:metered-ca/video-chat-app-php-laravel.git

2. cd into the project directory

cd video-chat-app-php-laravel

3. Install NPM packages

npm install

4. Create the .env file

cp .env.example .env

In the .env file replace the <YOUR_METERED_DOMAIN> with your Metered Domain and <YOUR_METERED_SECRET_KEY> with your Metered Secret Key.

5. Run the command below to start the application

php artisan serve

Further Reading

• Metered Video SDK Documentation
• Metered Blog
• Embed Video Chat