PHP client capable of executing Celery tasks and reading asynchronous results.

Uses AMQP extension from PECL, the PHP AMQP implementation or Redis and the following settings in Celery:

result_serializer = 'json'
result_expires = None
task_track_started = False

The required PECL-AMQP version is at least 1.0. Last version tested is 1.4.

Last PHP-amqplib version tested is 2.5.1.

Last predis version tested is 1.0.1.

Tested on Celery 4.0+.

API documentation is dead, help wanted

POSTING TASKS

$c = new \Celery\Celery('localhost', 'myuser', 'mypass', 'myvhost');
$result = $c->PostTask('tasks.add', array(2,2));

// The results are serializable so you can do the following:
$_SESSION['celery_result'] = $result;
// and use this variable in an AJAX call or whatever

tip: if using RabbitMQ guest user, set "/" vhost

READING ASYNC RESULTS

while (!$result->isReady())    {
    sleep(1);
    echo '...';
}

if ($result->isSuccess()) {
    echo $result->getResult();
} else {
    echo "ERROR";
    echo $result->getTraceback();
}

GET ASYNC RESULT MESSAGE

$c = new \Celery\Celery('localhost', 'myuser', 'mypass', 'myvhost');
$message = $c->getAsyncResultMessage('tasks.add', 'taskId');

PYTHON-LIKE API

An API compatible to AsyncResult in Python is available too.

$c = new \Celery\Celery('localhost', 'myuser', 'mypass', 'myvhost');
$result = $c->PostTask('tasks.add', array(2,2));

$result->get();
if ($result->successful()) {
    echo $result->result;
}

ABOUT

Based on this blog post and reading Celery sources. Thanks to Skrat, author of Celerb for a tip about response encoding. Created for the needs of my consulting work at Massive Scale.

License is 2-clause BSD.

DEVELOPMENT

Development process and goals.

CONNECTING VIA SSL

Connecting to a RabbitMQ server that requires SSL is currently only possible via PHP-amqplib to do so you'll need to create a celery object with ssl options:

$ssl_options = [
    'cafile' => 'PATH_TO_CA_CERT_FILE',
    'verify_peer' => true,
    'passphrase' => 'LOCAL_CERT_PASSPHRASE',
    'local_cert' => 'PATH_TO_COMBINED_CLIENT_CERT_KEY',
    'CN_match' => 'CERT_COMMON_NAME'
];

$c = new \Celery\Celery($host, $user, $password, $vhost, 'celery', 'celery', 5671, false, 0, $ssl_options);

CONNECTING TO REDIS

Refer to files in testscenario/ for examples of celeryconfig.py.

$c = new \Celery\Celery(
    'localhost', /* Server */
    '', /* Login */
    'test', /* Password */
    'wutka', /* vhost */
    'celery', /* exchange */
    'celery', /* binding */
    6379, /* port */
    'redis' /* connector */
);