###Important Note: The library is not supported by the author anymore. However, there are forks, especially this one which is still in the active development.
PHP extension for Apache Kafka 0.8. It's built on top of kafka C driver (librdkafka). It makes persistent connection to kafka broker with non-blocking calls, so it should be very fast.
IMPORTANT: Library is in heavy development and some features are not implemented yet.
Download and install librdkafka. Run sudo ldconfig to update shared libraries.
phpize
./configure --enable-kafka
make
sudo make install
sudo sh -c 'echo "extension=kafka.so" >> /etc/php5/conf.d/kafka.ini'
#For CLI mode:
sudo sh -c 'echo "extension=kafka.so" >> /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-kafka.ini'// Produce a message
$kafka = new Kafka("localhost:9092");
$kafka->produce("topic_name", "message content");
$kafka->consume("topic_name", 1172556);