Dynamic Gearman Worker Functions in PHP

[emorling]

Is it possible? The create_func function in PHP will dynamically
create a function, but there doesn't seem to be a way to rename it?
The reason for wanting to do this is to have a unique function for
each worker, so that the worker can be exited, e.g. with a name
"<process id>_stop_running".

thanks
Elia

[Shane Harter]

You don't need to name it -- that would kinda mitigate the point of anonymous functions. 

Instead, you can pass the output of create_function as a callback. So when you call addFunction(), give it whatever name you want, and then instead of passing in a callback, pass in the anonymous function. 

Look at the create_function docs, this should give you some guidance.

[emorling]

My goodness! You are absolutely right. I am an idiot. :)

[Shane Harter]

No, you're definitely not an idiot. Something like that is natural in JavaScript -- none of us really associates PHP with lambda calculus (and with good reason...). 

[Soenke Ruempler]

Hi,

FYI: PHP 5.3 has native support for lambda / closures:

http://php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php