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Christopher Pitt
April 20, 2015
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Reactive PHP Events
Event loops in PHP.
Christopher Pitt
April 20, 2015
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Transcript
Reactive Events
You can do awesome things in PHP
$(".button").click(function() { $(".alert").show() .find(".label").html("You clicked a thing!"); });
var buttons = document.querySelectorAll(".button"); buttons.forEach(function(button) { button.addEventListener("click", function(event) { button.style.visibility
= "visible"; var label = document.querySelector(".button .label"); label.innerHTML = "You clicked a thing!"; }); });
Questions?
This works because of the... event loop
And now for something completely different
This works because... Apache
And then mod_php takes over...
So, NodeJS then?
var http = require("http"); http.createServer(function (request, response) { response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":
"text/plain"}); response.end("Hello World"); }) http.listen(1337, "127.0.0.1");
NodeJS takes on the roles of web server and request
processor!
var filesystem = require("fs"); filesystem.readFile("/etc/passwd", function (error, data) { if
(error) { throw err; } console.log(data); });
ReactPHP
Now we can do that NodeJS thing in PHP
PHP also has closures
Trouble is... NodeJS libraries are designed to be non-blocking
PHP is still mostly blocking
We can fix this in a few ways...
We can evolve PHP to have lots of non-blocking code
in core
We can develop patterns and libraries for parallel execution
Asynchronous vs. Parallel Fight!
None
None
None
NodeJS is asynchronous but not parallel
WAT then?!
Queues
Queues are one-way
Queues are weak
GIEF STREGNTH!
https://github.com/asyncphp/remit
Starts with events...
then adds queues...
Voilà!
$server = new AsyncPHP\Remit\Adapter\ZeroMQ\Server( // some boring guff ); $server->addListener("tick",
function ($event, $i) { print "TICK {$i}\n"; }); $server->addListener("done", function ($event) { print "DONE\n"; }); $loop->run();
$client = new AsyncPHP\Remit\Adapter\ZeroMQ\Client( // some more boring guff );
foreach (range(1, 5) as $i) { $loop->addTimer($i, function () use ($client, $i) { $client->emit("tick", $i); }); } $loop->addTimer(6, function () use ($client) { $client->emit("done"); }); $loop->run();
Distributed, non-blocking events for bi-directional communication with message queue workers
Reactive PHP events