Re: Net_Gearman v0.0.1 pre-release alpha RC ... you get the idea.

Joe Stump wrote:

I've been working on Gearman for the upcoming images section here at Digg and, since we're a pure PHP shop (we're hiring!), I set off to create a PHP client that I plan on submitting to PEAR. It's based on the Python library (don't get me started on PHP's lack of a extendable socket class). At any rate here's the code: http://bugs.joestump.net/code/Net_Gearman/ And you can install the package by running: pear install "http://bugs.joestump.net/code/Net_Gearman/Net_Gearman-0.0.1.tgz" Things that I'm not currently doing very well and would love input (or patches!) on: 1.) Does it even work right? I mean, my tests run fine and it appears to be running things in parallel, but is it solid? 2.) It's not fully unit tested nor documented fully. 3.) I'm not doing a very good job of checking/validating sockets after they're opened to see if they go away. 4.) I don't do retries in Net_Gearman_Task/Set. 5.) I didn't implement the worker hooks that are ran at various stages of running a job (the Python library does this). This is a great way to implement logging listeners and I hope to implement it at some point. Thoughts? Suggestions? Outright flames?

I didn't know Gearman before your email. For those who don't know it either "Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages." It sounds interesting and having a php client is good thing :) -- Arnaud.