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PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By : Jose Palala, Martin Helmich
Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By: Jose Palala, Martin Helmich

Overview of this book

When it comes to modern web development, performance is everything. The latest version of PHP has been improvised and updated to make it easier to build for performance, improved engine execution, better memory usage, and a new and extended set of tools. If you’re a web developer, what’s not to love? This guide will show you how to make full use of PHP 7 with a range of practical projects that will not only teach you the principles, but also show you how to put them into practice. It will push and extend your skills, helping you to become a more confident and fluent PHP developer. You’ll find out how to build a social newsletter service, a simple blog with a search capability using Elasticsearch, as well as a chat application. We’ll also show you how to create a RESTful web service, a database class to manage a shopping cart on an e-commerce site and how to build an asynchronous microservice architecture. With further guidance on using reactive extensions in PHP, we’re sure that you’ll find everything you need to take full advantage of PHP 7. So dive in now!
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Build a Simple Blog with Search Capability using Elasticsearch

Event queues with ReactiveX


An event queue would simply ensure that things that are to be done in a synchronous manner or in a first-in first-out manner. Let's define first what a queue is.

A queue is basically a list of things to do, which will get executed one by one until all the things in the queue have been finished.

In Laravel, for example, there is already a concept of queues, where we go through the elements of the queue. You can find the documentation at https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/queues .

Queues are usually used in systems that need to do some tasks in order and not in an asynchronous function. In PHP, there is already the SplQueue class, which provides the main functionalities of a queue implemented using a doubly linked list.

In general, queues are executed in the order that they come in. In ReactiveX, things are more of an asynchronous nature. In this scenario, we will implement a priority queue, where each task has corresponding levels of priority.

This is what a simple PriorityQueue...