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thesmart/php-kue
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A producer client for Kue, a redis queue implementation

0.2.0(13y ago)101.5k2[1 PRs](https://github.com/twitvid/php-Kue/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=5.2.0

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php-kue
=======

[](#php-kue)

A producer client for Kue, a redis queue implementation

Brought to you by the fine developers @ [Telly.com](http://telly.com/)

Installation
============

[](#installation)

```
composer require php-kue

```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

Queueing a job is simple:

```
$kue = new KueApi('127.0.0.1', 6379);
$jobId = $kue->createJob('email', array (
	'title' => 'welcome email for tj',
	'to' => 'tj@learnboost.com',
	'template' => 'welcome-email',
));

Results:
```php
var_export($result);
3
```

@TODO
-----

[](#todo)

- Support for processing queue from PHP
- Better error handling

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity50

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1 days

Total

3

Last Release

4926d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/11f682ea6d98e41ccb56db0a284ac5b085fd31d40c3119cf8c3e493f87498c0a?d=identicon)[thesmart](/maintainers/thesmart)

---

Top Contributors

[![thesmart](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/280877?v=4)](https://github.com/thesmart "thesmart (5 commits)")

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Tags

queueredis queuekue

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