Just published the new gearman php extension on pecl. All new development to the extension will be done via pecl, including source control, and bug reports. Major highlights of this release are conformance to php and pecl standards, addition of arginfo (used for Reflection), and a few bug fixes. Part of the php conformance was renaming a few methods/functions to names that follow the php coding standards. I hope this is not a huge inconvenience to anyone already using the extension. Another large change is most functions now return True/False and return values should now be checked with $obj->returnCode(). This was done to reduce the number of functions that returned lists.

You can download the new extension from PECL.

Also Gearman now has drizzle/MySQL/etc backed persistant queues! I am excited to try them out and will likely update the gearman.org website with a fancy php use case. You can read more about them on Eric Day’s blog or on the Gearman website.

Next up drizzle php extension