php-jobs

Introduction

This is a simple node.js script to run php scripts. This setup can be utilized to perform some heavy tasks asynchronously from the php request a client performs. With this system, it is therefore possible to server pages quickly where nontheless some hard work is required.

Requirements

This software is depending on Node.js and Redis. Please make sure you have them installed on your system. On a Linux system with apt, it is as simple as:

apt-get install redis-server nodejs

For other platforms, please visit the appropriate websites to install both packages.

Installation

The easiest way to get a working copy of this project is to do a recursive clone:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/juriansluiman/php-jobs.git

After the clone is complete, run the manager.js script with node:

node manager.js

If you're wondering what the --recursive flag is, keep reading:

Git Submodules

This project makes use of Git submodules. Utilizing Git submodules allows us to reference an exact commit in the upstream juriansluiman/node-jobs and mranney/node_redis repositories and ensure that those who have cloned the project have that same commit checked out. This provides several benefits:

• Developers do not have to worry about which commit of the node-redis and node-jobs projects to have checked out for this project to work.

There are a couple of mild caveats to be aware of:

• Be sure to always run git submodule update after pulling, as merge/rebase does not automatically update the checked out commit in submodules if it has been changed.

(Thanks to Evan Coury for a large part of this README)