Swoole

Swoole is a PECL extension for developing asynchronous applications in PHP. It enables PHP developers to write high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix socket, HTTP, or Websocket services without requiring in-depth knowledge about non-blocking I/O programming or the low-level Linux kernel.

Install swoole

You can install the Swoole extension on Linux or Mac environments using the following commands:

$ pecl install swoole

For more information on the extension, visit its package details on PECL.

Install zend-expressive-swoole

To install this package, use Composer:

$ composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-swoole

Swoole with Expressive

zend-expressive-swoole enables an Expressive application to be executed with the Swoole extension. This means you can run the application from the command line, without requiring a web server.

You can run the application using the following command:

$ ./vendor/bin/zend-expressive-swoole start

This command will execute Swoole on localhost via port 8080.

Other commands

To get a list of all available commands, run the command without arguments:

$ ./vendor/bin/zend-expressive-swoole

If you add the argument help before any command name, the tooling will provide you with more detailed information on that command.

Expressive skeleton versions prior to 3.1.0

The above will work immediately after installing zend-expressive-swoole if you are using a version of zend-expressive-skeleton from 3.1.0 or later.

For applications based on previous versions of the skeleton, you will need to create a configuration file such as config/autoload/zend-expressive-swoole.global.php or config/autoload/zend-expressive-swoole.local.php with the following contents:

<?php
use Zend\Expressive\Swoole\ConfigProvider;

return (new ConfigProvider())();

You can change the host address and/or host name as well as the port using a configuration file, as follows:

// In config/autoload/swoole.local.php:
return [
    'zend-expressive-swoole' => [
        'swoole-http-server' => [
            'host' => '192.168.0.1',
            'port' => 9501,
        ],
    ],
];

Providing additional Swoole configuration

You can also configure the Swoole HTTP server using an options key to specify any accepted Swoole settings. For instance, the following configuration demonstrates enabling SSL:

// config/autoload/swoole.local.php
return [
    'zend-expressive-swoole' => [
        // Available in Swoole 4.1 and up; enables coroutine support
        // for most I/O operations:
        'enable_coroutine' => true,

        // Configure Swoole HTTP Server:
        'swoole-http-server' => [
            'host' => '192.168.0.1',
            'port' => 9501,
            'mode' => SWOOLE_BASE, // SWOOLE_BASE or SWOOLE_PROCESS;
                                   // SWOOLE_BASE is the default
            'protocol' => SWOOLE_SOCK_TCP | SWOOLE_SSL, // SSL-enable the server
            'options' => [
                // Set the SSL certificate and key paths for SSL support:
                'ssl_cert_file' => 'path/to/ssl.crt',
                'ssl_key_file' => 'path/to/ssl.key',
                // Whether or not the HTTP server should use coroutines;
                // enabled by default, and generally should not be disabled:
                'enable_coroutine' => true,

                // Overwrite the default location of the pid file;
                // required when you want to run multiple instances of your service in different ports:
                'pid_file' => 'path/to/pid_file.pid',
            ],

            // Since 2.1.0: Set the process name prefix.
            // The master process will be named `{prefix}-master`,
            // worker processes will be named `{prefix}-worker-{id}`,
            // and task worker processes will be named `{prefix}-task-worker-{id}`
            'process-name' => 'your-app',
        ],
    ],
];

SSL support

By default, Swoole is not compiled with SSL support. To enable SSL in Swoole, it must be configured with the --enable-openssl or --with-openssl-dir=/path/to/openssl option.

Serving static files

We support serving static files. By default, we serve files with extensions in the whitelist defined in the constant Zend\Expressive\Swoole\StaticResourceHandler\ContentTypeFilterMiddleware::DEFAULT_STATIC_EXTS, which is derived from a list of common web MIME types maintained by Mozilla. Our static resource capabilities are fairly comprehensive; please see the chapter on static resources for full details on configuration.