walkor/workerman
Workerman
Workerman is an event-driven asynchronous socket framework for PHP. It provides the core components necessary to build high-concurrency network servers, including an asynchronous TCP framework, a coroutine library for task management, and dedicated implementations for HTTP and WebSocket servers.
The project enables the development of specialized network services using custom frame-based communication protocols. It supports both inbound concurrent server implementation and asynchronous outbound connectivity to remote services.
The framework covers a broad range of network programming capabilities, including secure socket communication via network traffic encryption and the management of shared state through coroutine communication channels. It also includes tools for server lifecycle management to control the operational state of the application.
Features
- Event-Driven Networking - Uses a high-performance event-driven runtime model to handle massive volumes of concurrent socket connections.
- High-Concurrency Networking - Provides an event-driven architecture designed to manage massive numbers of simultaneous network connections in PHP.
- Asynchronous Network Frameworks - Serves as a foundational library for building event-driven, high-performance protocol servers and clients in PHP.
- Asynchronous Socket Libraries - An event-driven framework providing non-blocking TCP and UDP socket implementations for building high-concurrency servers in PHP.
- Custom Protocol Implementations - Enables the development of specialized network services using custom frame-based communication protocols.
- Non-Blocking Socket I/O - Implements non-blocking socket I/O to monitor multiple network connections simultaneously without stalling the execution thread.
- Asynchronous TCP Frameworks - Provides a tool for creating non-blocking TCP connections and custom frame-based protocols for high-volume data transmission.
- WebSocket Servers - Provides a dedicated server implementation for handling real-time bidirectional communication using the WebSocket protocol.
- Master-Worker Process Models - Employs a multi-process architecture where a master process monitors worker processes that handle network traffic.
- High-Concurrency Backends - Provides the necessary primitives to build high-concurrency PHP backends capable of managing massive simultaneous connections.
- High-Performance HTTP Servers - Provides a high-performance asynchronous server for processing HTTP requests with low latency and high throughput.
- PHP - Ships a comprehensive library for managing concurrent tasks and shared state via coroutines in the PHP runtime.
- PHP Coroutine Runtimes - Provides a coroutine library that simulates multitasking by pausing and resuming execution paths without blocking.
- Connection Pooling - Maintains a cache of established network connections to eliminate the overhead of repeated TCP handshakes.
- Coroutine Channels - Implements a push-pull channel mechanism to synchronize state and communicate data between asynchronous tasks.
- Asynchronous Outbound Clients - Enables the establishment of non-blocking outbound connections to remote services using TCP and WebSockets.
- Protocol-Agnostic Transport Layers - Provides a transport layer that is independent of the specific message parsing logic, supporting custom protocols like HTTP and WebSocket.
- Asynchronous Flow Coordination - Provides barriers and parallel blocks to coordinate multiple asynchronous operations and ensure completion.
- Non-Blocking Suspension Points - Employs non-blocking suspension points to execute multiple tasks concurrently without stalling the main event loop.
- Channel-Based Concurrency - Utilizes a push-pull channel mechanism for safe data exchange and synchronization between concurrent tasks.
- Traffic Encryption - Implements SSL and encrypted network tunnels to protect data transmitted between the server and its clients.
- Connection Pooling - Maintains a reusable pool of connections to backend services to reduce latency and resource creation overhead.
- Event and Async Programming - Offers an event-driven networking framework.
