This requires PHP 5.5 or greater.
On Mac OS X, install homebrew. On Linux, install linuxbrew. Run the following command to install gRPC.
$ curl -fsSL https://goo.gl/getgrpc | bash -s php
This will download and run the gRPC install script and compile the gRPC PHP extension.
Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc.git
Install composer
$ cd examples/php $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php $ php composer.phar install
Run the server
Please follow the instruction in Node to run the server
$ cd examples/node $ nodejs greeter_server.js
Run the client
$ cd examples/php $ ./run_greeter_client.sh
This directory has a copy of helloworld.proto
because it currently depends on some Protocol Buffer 2.0 syntax. There is no proto3 support for PHP yet.
You can find a more detailed tutorial in gRPC Basics: PHP