An easy to use gRPC PHP client

Some weeks ago I wrote the series: How to start using grpc with PHP and now I want to share the repository with the docker image of the final grpc PHP client.

it is self-conteined and docker based project it offers:

1. A docker image to compile the grpc_php_plugin and protoc-29.0.0 from php 8.3
2. A sh file to generate the static code
3. A valid example of using each of grpc services from server

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How to use the client

1. After cloning the repo, go to root project folder and execute to:

docker compose up -d

1. That will automatically from docker hub and set your containers up.
2. Now go inside the php container:

docker exec -it php sh

1. Once inside the container you can use the grpc-generate.sh to build the static files:

sh grpc-generate.sh

1. And finally, execute the php clients examples:

php src/client-grpc.php #output: Unary call, Server answer: Hello Jhonatan 

php src/server-stream-grpc.php #output: server stream server answer 10 messages 

php src/client-stream-grpc.php #output: client streaming server answer after all requests 

php src/open-stream-grpc.php #output: bi-diretional streamingm server answer after each requests   

Visit the repo4 and chech the implementation of each client call and adjust it to your needs