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Dapr offers an SDK to help with the development of PHP applications. Using it, you can create PHP clients, servers, and virtual actors with Dapr.

Setting up

Prerequisites

Optional Prerequisites

Docker
xdebug – for debugging

Initialize your project

In a directory where you want to create your service, run composer init and answer the questions. Install with composer require dapr/php-sdk and any other dependencies you may wish to use.

Configure your service

Create a config.php, copying the contents below:

<?php
use Dapr\Actors\Generators\ProxyFactory;
use Dapr\Middleware\Defaults\{Response\ApplicationJson,Tracing};
use Psr\Log\LogLevel;
use function DI\{env,get};
return [
    // set the log level
    'dapr.log.level'               => LogLevel::WARNING,
    // Generate a new proxy on each request - recommended for development
    'dapr.actors.proxy.generation' => ProxyFactory::GENERATED,
    // put any subscriptions here
    'dapr.subscriptions'           => [],
    // if this service will be hosting any actors, add them here
    'dapr.actors'                  => [],
    // if this service will be hosting any actors, configure how long until dapr should consider an actor idle
    'dapr.actors.idle_timeout'     => null,
    // if this service will be hosting any actors, configure how often dapr will check for idle actors 
    'dapr.actors.scan_interval'    => null,
    // if this service will be hosting any actors, configure how long dapr will wait for an actor to finish during drains
    'dapr.actors.drain_timeout'    => null,
    // if this service will be hosting any actors, configure if dapr should wait for an actor to finish
    'dapr.actors.drain_enabled'    => null,
    // you shouldn't have to change this, but the setting is here if you need to
    'dapr.port'                    => env('DAPR_HTTP_PORT', '3500'),
    // add any custom serialization routines here
    'dapr.serializers.custom'      => [],
    // add any custom deserialization routines here
    'dapr.deserializers.custom'    => [],
    // the following has no effect, as it is the default middlewares and processed in order specified
    'dapr.http.middleware.request'  => [get(Tracing::class)],
    'dapr.http.middleware.response' => [get(ApplicationJson::class), get(Tracing::class)],
];

Create your service

Create index.php and put the following contents:

<?php
require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
use Dapr\App;
$app = App::create(configure: fn(\DI\ContainerBuilder $builder) => $builder->addDefinitions(__DIR__ . '/config.php'));
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function(string $name) {
    return ['hello' => $name];
});
$app->start();

Try it out

Initialize dapr with dapr init and then start the project with dapr run -a dev -p 3000 -- php -S 0.0.0.0:3000.

You can now open a web browser and point it to http://localhost:3000/hello/world replacing world with your name, a pet’s name, or whatever you want.

Congratulations, you’ve created your first Dapr service! I’m excited to see what you’ll do with it!

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