#This fork is still being actively developed

Given that the original repo is no longer supported by the author, I've decided to keep working at this PHP-Kafka extension instead. The branch where most of the work is being done is the consume-with-meta branch.

Changes that have happened thusfar:

• Timeout when disconnecting is reduced (significantly)
• Connections can be closed as you go
• The librdkafka meta API is used
• New methods added (Kafka::getTopics, Kafka::getPartitionsFor($topic) most notable additions)
• Kafka::set_partition is deprecated, in favour of the more PSR-compliant Kafka::setPartition method
• A PHP stub was added for IDE code-completion
• Argument checks were added, and exceptions are thrown in some places
• Class constants for an easier API (Kafka::OFFSET_*)
• The extension logged everything in /var/etc/syslog, this is still the default behaviour (as this extension is under development), but can be turned off (Kafka::setLogLevel(Kafka::LOG_OFF))
• Exceptions (KafkaException) in case of errors (still work in progress, though)
• Thread-safe Kafka connections

Changes that are on the TODO list include:

• Separating kafka meta information out into a separate class (KafkaTopic and KafkaMessage classes)
• Support for multiple kafka connections
• Allow PHP to determine what the timeouts should be (mainly when disconnecting, or producing messages)
• Add custom exceptions
• Overall API improvements
• Performance!
• CI (travis)
• Adding tests to the build
• PHP7 support

All help is welcome, of course...

PHP extension for Apache Kafka 0.8. It's built on top of kafka C driver (librdkafka). This extension requires the version 0.8.6 (ubuntu's librdkafka packages won't do it, they do not implement the meta API yet).

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");
//get all the available partitions
$partitions = $kafka->getPartitionsForTopic('topic_name');
//use it to OPTIONALLY specify a partition to consume from
//if not, consuming IS slower. To set the partition:
$kafka->setPartition($partitions[0]);//set to first partition
//then consume, for example, starting with the first offset, consume 20 messages
$msg = $kafka->consume("topic_name", Kafka::OFFSET_BEGIN, 20);
var_dump($msg);//dumps array of messages