Connecting go with php

[Slawomir Pryczek]

Hi Guys, we have written a tool in our company that allows fast communication between golang and PHP. It's golang socket server, and php persistent sockets client. Main reason for writing it was that some algorithms in PHP are like 1000-10k times slower than in go, and writing a short module is much easier to do than writing PHP extension, so it could speed up PHP code a lot.

Main reason for doing socket server is that's much faster than HTTP calls. We're thinking about open-sourcing it, anyone would be interested?

[John Souvestre]

Yes!  I have a friend who uses PHP but is interested in Go.  Being able to mix them would make his transition easier.

 

John

    John Souvestre - New Orleans LA

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[Konstantin Khomoutov]

Can you elaborate on what exactly do you mean by "socket server"?
I'm confused because most of the time HTTP is done over sockets
(usually TCP socket but Unix-domain sockets are not too uncommon),
so when you contrast HTTP and sockets it sounds like apples to oranges
to me.

Do you mean you have implmented some soft of binary protocol (may be
RPC-like) over sockets?

[Slawomir Pryczek]

@John: that's great, will post a link to repo and some docs soon... i think next week should be ready.

@Konstantin: Yes that's RPC-like binary protocol and server that allows you to expose golang methods via tcp / udp sockets, and call them from websites, php app, etc. So in 5-10 minutes you can setup a system to port your cpu-intensitive code from php, perl, python, etc. to golang. So it's not just RPC, but full server.

[Slawomir Pryczek]

Hi Guys,

today the project went live, i invite everyone to contribute & use it... There is PHP client, Golang RPC-like server, and some examples how to communicate.

https://github.com/slawomir-pryczek/HSServer

And here you have server-status screen

http://screencast.com/t/Slbc9VFZZ