What is the usage of Kafka in PHP?

8 months ago

Sophia Anderson

2 minutes

Using Kafka in PHP can be achieved by using the Kafka PHP client library. Here are some usage examples:

Producer: Using a Kafka producer in PHP allows you to send messages to a Kafka . This can be done using the Producer class in the Kafka PHP client library. Here is an example code:

<?php
require('vendor/autoload.php');

$producer = new RdKafka\Producer();
$producer->setLogLevel(LOG_DEBUG);
$producer->addBrokers('localhost:9092');

$topic = $producer->newTopic('test');

for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
    $topic->produce(RD_KAFKA_PARTITION_UA, 0, 'Message ' . $i);
}

$producer->poll(0);

while ($producer->getOutQLen() > 0) {
    $producer->poll(50);
}

Consumer: In PHP, consumers can suribe to messages from a Kafka and process them using the Consumer class from the Kafka PHP client library. Below is an example code.

<?php
require('vendor/autoload.php');

$consumer = new RdKafka\Consumer();
$consumer->setLogLevel(LOG_DEBUG);
$consumer->addBrokers('localhost:9092');

$topic = $consumer->newTopic('test');
$topic->consumeStart(0, RD_KAFKA_OFFSET_BEGINNING);

while (true) {
    $message = $topic->consume(0, 1000);
    if ($message->err) {
        echo "Error: {$message->errstr()}\n";
        break;
    } else {
        echo "Message: {$message->payload}\n";
    }
}

These are some examples of implementing producers and consumers in PHP using Kafka. In real applications, they can be ized and expanded according to specific needs.