gRPC in 3 minutes (PHP)

PREREQUISITES

This requires php >=5.5, phpize, pecl, phpunit

INSTALL

• Install the gRPC PHP extension

  $ [sudo] pecl install grpc
  

• Clone this repository

  $ git clone -b $(curl -L https://grpc.io/release) https://github.com/grpc/grpc
  

• Install composer

  $ cd examples/php
  $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
  $ php composer.phar install
  

TRY IT!

• Run the server

  Please follow the instruction in Node to run the server

  $ cd examples/node
  $ npm install
  $ cd dynamic_codegen or cd static_codegen
  $ node greeter_server.js
  

• Generate proto files and run the client

  $ cd examples/php
  $ ./greeter_proto_gen.sh
  $ ./run_greeter_client.sh
  

NOTE

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.

TUTORIAL

You can find a more detailed tutorial in gRPC Basics: PHP