gRPC in 3 minutes (PHP)

PREREQUISITES

This requires PHP 5.5 or greater.

INSTALL

• On Mac OS X, install homebrew. Run the following command to install gRPC.

  $ curl -fsSL https://goo.gl/getgrpc | bash -s php
  

  This will download and run the gRPC install script and compile the gRPC PHP extension.

• Clone this repository

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

• 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
  $ nodejs greeter_server.js
  

• Run the client

  $ cd examples/php
  $ ./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