README

PHP Daemon

Abstract

Barbas the PHP Daemon was started as a proof of concept for an old project for which a cron job just wasn't the right. The idea was to create a way to daemon-ize a PHP process.

With recent changes to PHP optimizing the runtime has allowed for this idea to be dusted off.

State

Barbas is currently in an active development state

Examples

Within the examples folder, there are two folders. First, is a simplified usage, and second a classBased daemon.

Simplified

The simplified usage where only core functionality exists within the execute function and the daemonization is done in the file.

Class Based

The classBased example encapsulates the daemonization into the execute functionality. Which is typically more memory intensive, especially if used within a framework.

Docs

Daemon Structure

construct

Accepts two variables sleepTime and timeLimit.

• sleepTime - default: 600 (ten minutes in seconds) -- the amount of time between each execution
• timeLimit - default: 0 -- the time limit before script times out

configure

Any prework configuration goes here

execute

Location for the scope of work to be done should exist here.

Other methods

Developers can implement their own methods to insert other objects or set variables for use on the class.

Usage

Create your own Daemon class by either extending \PHPAlchemist\Barbas\AbstractDaemon or implementing \PHPAlchemist\Barbas\Contract\DaemonInterface