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vanilla/garden-message-queue
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A message queue implementation for Vanilla.

v1.0(7y ago)040MITPHPPHP >=7.0.0

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Garden Message Queue
====================

[](#garden-message-queue)

This component provides everything needed for Vanilla to schedule jobs and process them.

It provides two main services, a `JobQueue` and a `JobDriver`. The `JobQueue` provides a scheduling service while the `JobDriver` provides an implementation which executes job payloads on the web server itself.

How to set it up in Vanilla?
----------------------------

[](#how-to-set-it-up-in-vanilla)

- Add `vanilla/garden-message-queue` to the `require` section in Vanilla's `composer.json`.
- Run `composer update`
- Bootstrap this component by adding the following snippet in Vanilla's `bootstrap.php`.

```
// Bootstrap the MessageQueue component
\Garden\MessageQueue\JobQueue::bootstrap(Gdn::getContainer());

```

Once configured, you can access the scheduler to add a job as followed:

```
/* @var $jobQueue \Garden\MessageQueue\JobQueue */
$jobQueue = Gdn::getContainer()->get('JobQueue');

// Schedules a job
$job = $jobQueue->addJob(EchoJob::class, ['message' => 'Hello World!']);
echo "EchoJob was scheduled with ID: " . $job->getID() . " and status: " . $job->getStatus();

```

At the end of the web request, once `GDN_Dispatcher` is done rendering the view, all jobs scheduled with the `JobQueue` will be processed one after another. A call to [fastcgi\_finish\_request()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.fastcgi-finish-request.php) will be made so that all processing can run in the background without hanging the browser rendering.

How to execute jobs on a dedicated queue system?
------------------------------------------------

[](#how-to-execute-jobs-on-a-dedicated-queue-system)

You can provide your own driver by implementing the `JobDriverInterface` interface and then configure the container to use that custom job driver instead of the default one.

```
// Switch implementation for the 'JobQueue' service
Gdn::getContainer()
        ->rule('JobQueue')
        ->setClass(ExternalJobQueue::class)
        ->setShared(true)

```

This new driver would then be responsible to delegate jobs to an external queue system such as RabbitMQ. A new job processor would have to be implemented in order to consume those jobs. Take a look at the [Queue Interop](https://github.com/vanilla/queue-interop) repo for hints as to what the implementation would entail.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 84.6% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2883d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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