PHP talks to Node

gistfile1.php

<?php
/**
 * An attempt to have PHP send shit to Node, so that it can emit to our connected JS clients
 *
 */
class nodeNotifier {

    public $dataToSend = array();
    public $nodeServerPort = 8000;
    public $broadcastNamespace;
    public $appName;


    /**
     * @return bool
     * @throws Exception
     */
    function notifyNode() {

        if(array_key_exists('SERVER_SOFTWARE',$_SERVER) && preg_match("/win/i",$_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'])) {
            $OS = "windows";//not running node on development machines using windows
            return true;
        }

        if(empty($this->dataToSend) || !is_array($this->dataToSend)) {
            throw new Exception("Nothing to notify Node about! No data set");
        }

        //$this->dataToSend['broadcastNamespace'] = $this->broadcastNamespace;
        $data['broadcastNamespace'] = $this->broadcastNamespace;
        $data['data'] = json_encode($this->dataToSend);

        $binSource = "http://127.0.0.1/".$this->appName;

        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$binSource);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Expect:"));
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_PORT,$this->nodeServerPort);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,true);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);


        if(curl_exec($ch)===FALSE) {
            throw new Exception("CURL error; did not exec()".curl_error($ch));
        };

        curl_close($ch);
        return true;
    }



}