Stack-Agent-Thing

Stack Agent Thing frame work for Thing based Agent processing with Stack serialization and deserialization.

To share a Thing's state. With other Things.

Copyright 2018-2019. Stackr Interactive Ltd.

Requirements

• PHP >= 7
• BCMath
• Gearman

Installation

To install all the required parts:

composer require nrwtaylor/stack-agent-thing

Stack build recipe. See BUILD in root folder.

1. Install Ubuntu.

2. Install LAMP stack.

3. Create MySQL database.

mysql> DESCRIBE stack;
+--------------+---------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+
| Field        | Type          | Null | Key | Default           | Extra |
+--------------+---------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+
| id           | int(11)       | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| uuid         | char(36)      | YES  | UNI | NULL              |       |
| task         | varchar(200)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| status       | tinyint(1)    | NO   |     | 1                 |       |
| created_at   | datetime      | NO   |     | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP |       |
| nom_to       | varchar(80)   | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| nom_from     | varchar(80)   | YES  | MUL | NULL              |       |
| associations | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| message0     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| message1     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| message2     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| message3     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| message4     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| message5     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| message6     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| message7     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| settings     | varchar(998)  | YES  |     | NULL              |       |
| variables    | varchar(3998) | YES  | MUL | NULL              |       |
+--------------+---------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+

4. Install PHP extensions

sudo apt install php7.1-bcmath
sudo apt-get install php-bcmath

5. Configure private/settings.php

Not all the settings need to be set. But you will need to enter the MySQL database settings.

6. Test localhost serving to local-wide TCP/IP

php -S localhost:8080 -t public public/index.php

7. Install PHP extensions

sudo apt install php7.1-bcmath
sudo apt-get install php-bcmath
restart

8. Set-up and verify cron

* * * * * cd /var/www/html/<site name> && /usr/bin/php -q /var/www/html/<site name>/agents/Cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1

9. Install Gearman.

10. Test stack.

Browse to:

http://localhost
http://localhost/privacy.  Select 'Start'.

11. Test Roll PNG

agent roll
agent ping

12. Test Snowflake (web, PNG, PDF)

agent snowflake

Usage

Make a Thing

    $thing = new Thing(null); // creates a UUID for a thing

    Show a Thing's UUID
    echo $thing->uuid; // display UUID

    Instantiate a Thing
    $thing->Create("from","to","test message");

    Run an agent on a Thing
    $agent = new Start($thing); // runs the Start agent 

Run the start agent from a browser:

http://www.stackr.test/thing/67a8038d-4c19-4777-9b5f-18b8b74d8f1e/start

Credits

• Rob Allen for Slim
• Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky for Stack Overflow
• Alan Turing for On Computable Numbers

Dev

https://stack-agent-thing.slack.com/archives/C01PT2V6B8U Slack invitation