neoglez/batch-manager

The BatchManager is an attempt to port the Drupal Batch API to the Zend Framework 2 event-driven, service-oriented arquitecture.

BatchManager

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Introduction

The BatchManager is an attempt to port the Drupal Batch API to the Zend Framework 3 event-driven, service-oriented arquitecture. The batch manager can be used to simulate or even implement asynchronous processing. It also tries to solve (in a rather naive way) the problem of scalability in a PHP environment where you usually have to increase the maximum execution time to accomplish a task depending on the size of some input. The Drupal Batch API is a very simple but powerful idea for a lot of practical use cases. If you are not familiar with it [go and give it a try] (https://www.drupal.org/node/180528). So why then write this module? Well, Drupal Batch API depends on Drupal, which is a framework but also a CMS, so in my opinion it isn’t flexible enough; I also think that Drupal’s hook-philosophy reassemble that of an event driven, but with some limitations so this module aims to decouple the functionality while using the comprehensive ZF2 EventManager component., _(*2)

Installation

Main setup

With composer

1. Load neoglez/batch-manager in your composer.json file., _(*3)

   "require": {
       "neoglez/batch-manager": "dev-master"
   }
   

2. Update composer, _(*4)

$ php composer.phar update

By cloning project

If you do not want to use composer, clone this project (either as a git submodule or not) into ./vendor/ directory., _(*5)

Post installation

1. Enable BatchManager in your application.config.phpfile., _(*6)

   <?php
   return array(
       'modules' => array(
           // ...
           'BatchManager',
       ),
       // ...
   );
   

2. To be able to use the assets under /batch-manager/public you can either install the module AssetManager or copy the files to your public directory., _(*7)

Creating the table

You must create the required table in order to use the default BatchManager\Mapper\DbBatchMapper. You may use the schema located in data/batch.sql., _(*8)

>mysql database < data/batch.sql, _(*9)