In the latest post to his site Gonzalo Ayuso shares some of the results of his "playing with RabbitMQ, PHP and node", creating a queue system that both languages could talk to easily.

I need to use RabbitMQ in one project. I’m a big fan of Gearman, but I must admit Rabbit is much more powerful. In this project I need to handle with PHP code and node, so I want to build a wrapper for those two languages. I don’t want to re-invent the wheel so I will use existing libraries (php-amqplib and amqplib for node).

Basically I need to use three things: First I need to create exchange channels to log different actions. I need to decouple those actions from the main code. I also need to create work queues to ensure those works are executed. It doesn’t matter if work is executed later but it must be executed. And finally RPC commands.

He goes through some of the basics of using RabbitMQ , showing the code for each of the languages - pushing a new value into the queue, registering workers, creating Queue builders and using an exchange and receiver to process the message. The post finishes with the last piece in his requirements: creating the functionality to handle RPC commands to get an answer back from the queue.