I am trying to make some information display in real-time on a site of mine. Followed this guide: http://www.volkomenjuist.nl/blog/2013/10/20/laravel-4-and-nodejsredis-pubsub-realtime-notifications/

Right now it seems to be working to a point. Having both Firefox and Chrome open, I can do the action on Chrome and Firefox's console logs it instantly (awesome!!). However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to send a full array over to the event listener/socket.on function. In this case, the $val variable in that Event fire is the only value getting logged in the console.

Firing the Event:

Event::fire( UpdateHealthEventHandler::EVENT, [ $val, $slug ] );

Event listener:

Event::listen( UpdateHealthEventHandler::EVENT, 'UpdateHealthEventHandler' );

Clientside display with socket.io:

$( document ).ready( function()
	{
		var socket = io.connect('ws://localhost:8081/');

		socket.on('health.update', function ( val, slug ) {
			//Do something with data
			console.log('updated: '+ val);
			console.log('slug: '+ slug);

			$( '.inner[data-name="'+ slug +'"]' ).fadeOut( 300, function() {
				$( this ).html( val );
			}).fadeIn( 300 );
		});
	});

Event handler class:

<?php

class UpdateHealthEventHandler {

	CONST EVENT = 'health.update';
	CONST CHANNEL = 'health.update';

	public function handle( $data )
	{
		$redis = Redis::connection();
		$redis->publish( self::CHANNEL, $data );
	}

}

In other words, how do I pass both the $val and $slug variables to the listener/socket?