gRPC in 3 minutes (PHP)

PREREQUISITES

This requires PHP 5.5 or greater.

INSTALL

• Clone this repository

  $ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-common.git
  

• Install Protobuf-PHP

  $ git clone https://github.com/murgatroid99/Protobuf-PHP.git
  $ cd Protobuf-PHP
  $ rake pear:package version=1.0
  $ pear install Protobuf-1.0.tgz
  

• Install composer

  $ cd grpc-common/php
  $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
  

• (Coming soon) Download the gRPC PECL extension

  Coming soon
  

• (Temporary workaround) Compile gRPC extension from source

  $ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc.git
  $ cd grpc
  $ git checkout --track origin/release-0_9
  $ git pull --recurse-submodules && git submodule update --init --recursive
  $ cd third_party/protobuf
  $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
  $ cd ../..
  $ make && make install
  $ cd src/php/ext/grpc
  $ phpize && ./configure && make && make install
  

TRY IT!

• Run the server

  Please follow the instruction in Node to run the server

  $ cd grpc-common/node
  $ nodejs greeter_server.js
  

• Run the client

  $ cd grpc-common/php
  $ php composer.phar install
  $ php -d extension=grpc.so greeter_client.php
  

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

Coming soon