php-job-daemon/php-job-daemon

A super lightweight PHP library to create a job daemon (e.g. consumer scripts) off of that is robust, free of memory leaks, and can run forever.

JobDaemon

A super lightweight PHP library to create a job daemon off of. Ideal for queue consumers and usage in other types of producer/consumer architecture. It is robust, free of memory leaks, and can run forever (provided that the code extending from it are also free of memory leaks)., _(*1)

It has been used in several production environments ranging from small to medium sized traffic, proven to work well to process millions of queue entries a day., _(*2)

Features

• Completely open to process data of any kind. Simply extend the class and overload the parent process and child process methods and do whatever work you need.
• Flexible logging options.
• Tested with PHP 5.3 and above

Installation

Grab a copy of the repository and move JobDaemon.php into your project and place it wherever you want, and include/require the file., _(*3)

Using Composer

If you need to, install composer., _(*4)

Create a composer.json file in your project root, or add JobDaemon to it if you have an existing one., _(*5)

{
    "require": {
        "php-job-daemon/php-job-daemon": "dev-master"
    }
}

Install via composer by running this in your project root:, _(*6)

$ composer install