[rabbitmq-discuss] PHP AMQP client?

Sun Sep 30 15:47:19 BST 2007

Tom

Thanks for describing the use cases.  Knowing nothing about PHP, I
would never have realised the server workflow could benefit from
messaging in this way.

I've been scratching my head trying to think of a way to help.  One
thought was to combine one of the C clients (say, OpenAMQ, which is
BSD licensed iirc), with the WSF/PHP plug-in from WSO2, which loads
processors for, eg SOAP and WS-RM, to a PHP web server.  There is
enough family resemblance between WS and REST style invocations, and
AMQP, that the source code might help you.  You can get it from here:
http://dist.wso2.org/products/wsf/php/1.0.0/

Feel free to flame me if this is a completely bogus suggestion.

Thoughts?

alexis

On 9/29/07, Tom Samplonius <tom at samplonius.org> wrote:
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>   Well, what is challenging about the PHP environment, is any long running tasks.  That is anything that can't be done during the http request/response cycle.  You will want to have a background worker handle any processing that takes 10+ seconds.  So the web handler can just put a message in the queue, and a background worker can process it.
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>   Also, doing critical steps in a web response code isn't exactly great either, because the Stop button issues.  In some cases, a stop, will cause the web server to stop the PHP interpreter, possible leaving various things in a unknown state.  Particularly if your PHP script is talking to an external web service.  It would be much better to have any critical processing done by a background worker, which has a more stable execution environment.
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>   An another issue, is serialization.  I have a remote control hardware device connected to a serial port.  Only one application can be talking to it at once.  A message queue provides an ideal serialization mechanism.
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