Introduction

With PHPDaemon you'll be able to run simple one-time daemons in any case you find yourself in a situation where you need to run an external script, meaning you need a Helper in your web project or what not.

This class works by storing a pid inside your script's dir as .script_file.pid (files starting wiht . are hidden by default).

Script output (logging) will be set in $options with the keys (boolean) log and (string) log_path.

If log is set to true and no log_path is provided or is invalid it will log in the script's directory.

If log is set to true and log_path is provided and valid it will log into the given log_path.

Log's name will be your script_file name ending with .log.

Example: For the pid /your/daemon/path/to/script_file.php would be /your/daemon/path/to/.script_file.php.pid and for the log /your/daemon/path/to/script_file.php without a log_path, it would be /your/daemon/path/to/script_file.php.log.

PHP Version

This class is compatible with PHP 5.4 and above due to the use of namespaces and PHP_BINARY constant.

Installing

Add this library to your composer configuration. In composer.json:

  "require": {
    "adrian0350/php-daemon": "1.*"
  }

OR

If you're using bash.

$ composer require adrian0350/php-daemon

Usage

For usage just call the methods from your PHPDaemon instance object.

<?php

// Start by including the class (if 1 level down).
include_once dirname(__FILE__).'/lib/PHPDaemon.php';

Usage — instantiating

Prepare three arguments you'll need.

• Script's compatible binary file path [OPTIONAL].
• Daemon script file path.

/**
 * Binary file path (per se) [OPTIONAL].
 *  · php
 *  · bash
 *
 * You could run '$ which php' in console
 * and get binary's filepath or use PHP's (^5.4) constant PHP_BINARY (although it's already being used internally).
 *
 * @var string $binary Binary filepath.
 */
$binary = '/opt/local/bin/php';

/**
 * The daemonized † filepath & filename.
 *
 * @var string $script Filepath & filename.
 */
$script = dirname(__FILE__).'/daemon/test.php';

/**
 * Logging options.
 *
 * @var array $options Includes log & log_path.
 */
$options = array(
	'log' => true,
	'log_path' => '/your/log/path'
);

// Instance receives 3 arguments (binary as optional).
$PHPDaemon = new PHPDaemon\PHPDaemon($script, $options, $binary);

Usage — instance handling

if ($PHPDaemon->isAlive())
{
	echo mb_convert_encoding('😈', 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES');
	echo ' Your daemon is alive and running!'.PHP_EOL;
}
else
{
	if ($PHPDaemon->start())
	{
		echo 'You\'ve unleashed the beast!'.PHP_EOL;
	}
	else
	{
		echo $PHPDaemon->error['message'].PHP_EOL;
	}
}

Usage — stoping daemonized scripts

if ($PHPDaemon->stop())
{
	echo mb_convert_encoding('😈', 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES');
	echo ' Your daemon has been stopped from deminishing the world!'.PHP_EOL;
}
else
{
	// Print out error message.
	echo $PHPDaemon->error['message'];
}