Facebook Thrift PHP Client

16Jan/103

Facebook Thrift PHP Client

A while back I wrote a post about using Facebook's Thrift. One comment asked me to post the PHP client used to connect to the C++ server I was demo'ing. Most of the client is boiler-plate code generated by Thrift, so I chose to omit it at the time. Here it is:

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
$GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] = '/path/to/thrift';
 
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/Thrift.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/transport/TSocket.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/transport/THttpClient.php';
require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/transport/TBufferedTransport.php';
 
require_once 'Sale.php';
 
try {
  $socket = new TSocket('localhost', 9090);
  $transport = new TBufferedTransport($socket, 1024, 1024);
  $protocol = new TBinaryProtocol($transport);
  $client = new SaleClient($protocol);
 
  $transport->open();
 
  $d = new Sale_deal();
 
  $d->dealno = 12345;
  $d->term = 2;
  $d->payment = 500.1;
  $d->amtfin = 1000.00;
 
  echo 'Total cost: ' . $client->calc_apr($d) . "\n";
 
  $transport->close();
 
} catch (TException $tx) {
  print 'TException: '.$tx->getMessage()."\n";
}

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andrew
March 3rd, 2010 - 06:24

very useful thanks. i’m trying to put the finishing touches to an initial scribe deployment. sample client code is very useful.

thanks
Mark
March 9th, 2010 - 07:31

What are the contents of Sale.php? Is that completely generated by Thrift?

Since that is the definition of:
$client = new SaleClient($protocol);

it seems strange not to include it.
Herman Radtke
March 9th, 2010 - 10:08

The Sale.php file is generated from the Sale.thrift file. That file is shown in my previous post: http://www.hermanradtke.com/blog/exploring-facebooks-thrift/

With the Sale.thrift file, I generated a php client and a C++ server. The above example was just showing how I used the Sale.php client code.
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