AlphaRPC is a library for performing remote procedure calls from PHP. It uses ZeroMQ to communicate with the different parts.
To get AlphaRPC working, you first need to install libzmq (the ZeroMQ library) and php-zmq (the PHP extension).
screen is used to start all the handlers at once.
sudo apt-get install libzmq-dev php-pear php5-dev screen
sudo pear channel-discover pear.zero.mq
sudo pecl install pear.zero.mq/zmq-beta
sudo /bin/sh -c 'echo extension=zmq.so > /etc/php5/conf.d/zmq.ini'
sudo apt-get install libzmq3-dev libzmq3 php5-dev php-pear pkg-config
sudo pecl install zmq-beta
sudo /bin/sh -c 'echo extension=zmq.so > /etc/php5/mods-available/zmq.ini'
sudo php5enmod zmq
AlphaRPC uses composer for its dependency management.
Installing AlphaRPC is easy: just clone the repository and run composer.
git clone https://github.com/alphacomm/alpharpc.git
cd alpharpc
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
./composer.phar install
For now, we start AlphaRPC in some screen sessions. In production, we recommend you to use something like supervisor.
bin/start-handlers
If all went well, AlphaRPC is running now. To perform the first request, run:
examples/client-reverse.php
To provide your own text to be reversed, add it to the command:
examples/client-reverse.php 'hello world'
Now you have a working AlphaRPC installation. You are ready to perform some common tasks: