1. Requirements
2. Usage
3. Resources
4. Change Log

PHP client for Thrift 0.5.0, for Yii.

As thrift is extensively used by Facebook, which is using PHP in frontend, I think that may prove that thrift is php friendly. So I choose to use it to communicate with python and java in my project.

Requirements ¶

Yii 1.1 or above

Usage ¶

As a consumer of a thrift service, first you need to get the .thrift definition file, then using the thrift compiler generate interface files, as in Windows: ~~~ [shell] thrift.exe -gen php:oop service_defination.thrift ~~~ the generated files will be in a gen-php folder, a folder with the name of the php namespace definition in the .thrift file.

I assume you already extracted this extension at application.vendors directory, now copy the generated files to application.vendors.thrift.src.packages

Now add something in the config file:

'components' => array(
    ...

    'thrift'=>array(
        'class'=>'application.vendors.thrift.ThriftClient',
        'server_host'=>'localhost',
        'server_port'=>'9090',
        'send_timeout'=>1,
        'recv_timeout'=>5,
        'service_config'=>array(
            'search'=>array('server_host'=>'localhost','server_port'=>'11901'),
            'classifier'=>array('server_host'=>'www.leric.info','server_port'=>'11900'),
        ),
    ),

    ...
),

Configuration, it's done! Now you can use thrift in your code as this:

Yii::app()->thrift->service_namespace->service_method();

service_namespace is the namespace definition in the .thrift file, service_method is the method you want invoke in the service.

The client used TBufferedTransport as default transport, you can modify the ThriftClient.php around line 29 as you need

Resources ¶

• Thrift

If you run into a problem, email me or leave a comment. leric.zhang#gmail.com

Change Log ¶

• thrift_0.2 Fix connection init bug, Add multiple service config support