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mrpoundsign/pheanstalk-5.3
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Pure PHP5.3 client for the Beanstalk queueing system. Alls credits belong to author, Paul Annesley

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Pheanstalk PHP 5.3 fork
=======================

[](#pheanstalk-php-53-fork)

Pheanstalk is a pure PHP 5.3+ client for the [beanstalkd workqueue](http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/). It has been actively developed, and used in production by many, since late 2008.

Created by [Paul Annesley](http://paul.annesley.cc/), modified by [Brian Nelson](https://github.com/mrpoundsign/) for PHP 5.3 namespaces, Pheanstalk is rigorously unit tested and written using encapsulated, maintainable object oriented design. Community feedback, bug reports and patches has led to a stable 1.0.0 release in 2010.

beanstalkd up to the latest version 1.4 is supported. All commands and responses specified in the [protocol documentation](http://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/tree/v1.3/doc/protocol.txt?raw=true) for beanstalkd 1.3 are implemented.

Usage Example
-------------

[](#usage-example)

```

```

Running the tests
-----------------

[](#running-the-tests)

```

# ensure you have simpletest
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

$ ./tests/runtests.php
All Tests
OK
Test cases run: 4/4, Passes: 103, Failures: 0, Exceptions: 0

# extra tests relying on a beanstalkd on 127.0.0.1:11300
$ ./tests/runtests.php --with-server
All Tests
OK
Test cases run: 7/7, Passes: 198, Failures: 0, Exceptions: 0

$ ./tests/runtests.php --help

CLI test runner.

Available options:

  --with-server      Includes tests which connect to a beanstalkd server
  --testfile   Only run the specified test file.
  --help             This documentation.

```

Contributors
------------

[](#contributors)

- [Paul Annesley](https://github.com/pda)
- [Lachlan Donald](https://github.com/lox)
- [Joakim Bick](https://github.com/minimoe)
- [SlNPacifist](https://github.com/SlNPacifist)
- [leprechaun](https://github.com/leprechaun)
- [Peter McArthur](https://github.com/ptrmcrthr)
- [robbiehudson](https://github.com/robbiehudson)
- [Brian Nelson](https://github.com/mrpoundsign)
- .. more? Let me know if you're missing.

Licence
-------

[](#licence)

(c) Paul Annesley

Released under the [The MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity26

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 86.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![pda](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15759?v=4)](https://github.com/pda "pda (64 commits)")[![mrpoundsign](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/289106?v=4)](https://github.com/mrpoundsign "mrpoundsign (5 commits)")[![leprechaun](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/355637?v=4)](https://github.com/leprechaun "leprechaun (2 commits)")[![lox](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15758?v=4)](https://github.com/lox "lox (1 commits)")[![minimoe](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/68598?v=4)](https://github.com/minimoe "minimoe (1 commits)")[![SlNPacifist](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/225144?v=4)](https://github.com/SlNPacifist "SlNPacifist (1 commits)")

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