The Aerospike PHP Client works with PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6.

The PHP extension was tested to build on

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, Debian 6, 7 and related distros using the apt package manager
• CentOS 6.x, 7.x, RedHat 6.x, 7.x and related distros using the yum package manager
• Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Windows is currently not supported.

Documentation of the Aerospike PHP Client may be found in the doc directory. The API described there is the specification for the PHP Client. Notes on the internals of the implementation are in doc/internals.md.

Example PHP code can be found in the examples/ directory.

Full documentation of the Aerospike database is available at http://www.aerospike.com/docs/

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo yum install openssl-devel
sudo yum install lua-devel # on Fedora 20+ use compat-lua-devel-5.1.5
sudo yum install php-devel php-pear # unless PHP was manually installed

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libssl-dev liblua5.1-dev
sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear # unless PHP was manually installed

By default Mac OS X will be missing command line tools. On Mavericks (OS X 10.9) and higher those can be installed without Xcode.

xcode-select --install # install the command line tools, if missing

The dependencies can be installed through the OS X package manager Homebrew.

brew update && brew doctor
brew install automake
brew install openssl
brew install lua

To switch PHP versions see this gist.

To build the PHP extension, you must first invoke the setup script, which will download the Aerospike C client SDK if necessary (into aerospike-client-c/):

$ . scripts/setup

This will set the CLIENTREPO_3X environment variable, add the scripts/ directory to your path, and change the working directory to src/aerospike/. To grab the latest release of the C client SDK (rather than a specified version) modify the AEROSPIKE_C_CLIENT variable of the setup script to latest. You may need to remove the aerospike-client-c directory before running the setup script once more.

Next, build the Aerospike PHP extension.

$ build

For a debug build specify the log level (default being OFF):

$ build [-l|--loglevel <Desired log level: one among TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, OFF>] [--help]

The PHP extension will be built as modules/aerospike.so

To test the Aerospike PHP Client interactively after building, do:

$ php -dextension=modules/aerospike.so -a

To install the PHP extension do:

$ sudo make install
$ php -i | grep ".ini "

Now edit the php.ini file. If PHP is configured --with-config-file-scan-dir (usually set to /etc/php.d/) you can create an aerospike.ini file in the directory, otherwise edit php.ini directly. Add the following directive:

extension=aerospike.so

The aerospike module should now be available to the PHP CLI:

$ php -m | grep aerospike
aerospike

To clean up artifacts created by the build process you can do:

$ build-cleanup

At this point if you want to use make you will need to rebuild.

The Aerospike PHP Client is made availabled under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2, as stated in the file LICENSE.

Individual files may be made available under their own specific license, all compatible with Apache License, Version 2. Please see individual files for details.