Node.js - phplike

Chinese Readme: https://github.com/puritys/nodejs-phplike/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%89%88-Readme

This project’s purpose is to provider some PHP synchronous functions for the web development on Node.js.

Node.js is a event driven language and it has many asynchronous I/O methods. Asynchronous functions is not a bad way for a web system, it helps us to develop a non-blocking I/O program. But sometimes, we want to make code readable and easier to be maintained that asynchronous functions don’t have them.

In order to reduce the number of callback functions on Node.js scripts and improve the readability. I create the library phplike which supports many synchronous functions for Node.js such as “exec”, “curl”, “fsockopen” that can be executed without complicated callback functions. In additional, phplike provides the function cUrl which has the same operations with PHP’s function called curl. It will let you make an HTTP request synchronously.

npm: https://npmjs.org/package/phplike
All version: https://registry.npmjs.org/phplike
Git Source: https://github.com/puritys/nodejs-phplike

Travis CI status:

license

Install phplike

sudo npm install -g phplike

If your computer is not a normal OS, and it doesn’t have the header files of Curl, You will need to install node-gyp first. The installation of the phplike library will compile the C/C++ code with node-gyp. Usually, NPM will automatically install node-gyp when you try to install the phplike. Or you can install node-gyp by yourself.

sudo npm install -g node-gyp

   var php = require("phplike/module");
   var dirs = php.exec("ls ./");
   php.print_r(dirs);

How many OS does phplike support?

Linux: Every version of the phplike support Linux systems.
Mac: Supported from phplike@2.0.5 to latest
Windows: Only the following version are supported: phplike@2.1.0 、 phplike@2.2.8 , phplike@2.4.4 . I have tested features of the phplike on windows 8 and windows XP.
Raspberry PI (Pidora OS with ARM CPU): phplike@2.2.2 ~ Latest

OS	Suggested phplike Version
Linux	Latest
Mac	2.0.5 ~ latest
Windows	2.2.8, 2.4.2
Raspberry PI	2.2.2 ~ latest

If you have any issue for installing phplike, please open a issue in anytime. I will be pleasant to help you.

Dependency

Phplike have been already tested in Node.js version from 0.10.x to 0.12.x and io.js 1.0.0 to 2.1.0. Here is the test report: https://travis-ci.org/puritys/nodejs-phplike
libcurl (libcurl-7.19) : Linux system already has this built-in package. Please install libcurl-devel : sudo yum install libcurl-devel
python 2.4 ~ : phplike use node-gyp to compile C/C++ codes. It needs python with the version must be bigger than 2.7.8 , you can download python from here https://www.python.org/downloads/.

After the new version of phplike 2.2.0, I committed all binary files which already compiled in Windows, Mac and Linux, you can just install the phplike without compiling C/C++ now.

Completed PHP Method

System function

exec : Execute an external program
system
curl : curl_init, curl_setopt, curl_exec, curl_close, reuqest ( HTTP sync )
usleep , sleep

basic

print_r
is_string
is_int
is_object
is_array
is_numeric
is_int
isset
empty
exit
explode
implode

File Handler

file_get_contents
file_put_contents
mkdir
unlink
rmdir (dirname, isForce)
is_file, is_dir
readdir (get all file list in select directory)

Encoder and Decoder

json_encode, json_decode, handle multibyte: json_decode(xx, ‘JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE’)
md5
base64_encode
base64_decode

String

sprintf
str_pad
substr (string, start, length)
strtolower
strtoupper

XML Parser
XML Parser Document

DOMDocument
- getElementsByTagName
DOMElement
- firstChild
- lastChild
- hasAttributes

Socket

fsockopen
sendcmd
fwrite
fread

Mysql

mysqli_connect
mysql_connect
mysql_select_db
mysql_query
mysql_close
mysql_create_db
mysql_insert_id

array

shuffle
array_merge
array_rand

Others

time, date, mktime
chr, ord : string to ascii number, ascii number to string
decbin, bindec
parse_str : parse “a=b&c=d” to {“a”: “b”, “c”: “d”}
clone: clone a object or array
getcwd
urlencode, urldecode
intval: convert string to integer
strval: convert integer to string
trim
http_build_query

Execute phplike in global mode sample

You can directly use phplike functions. Functions of phplike are defined at the global object when you require the index.js. It means that you don’t need the prefix before calling the phplike’s function. The Node.js coding will be more like PHP’s. The only one disadvantage is that defining a function at the global object is easier to meet the conflict problem.

exec(command, printInScreen = true);

    require("phplike");
    var tm = time();
    sleep(10);
    var result = exec("ls -la");
    print_r(result);

Execute phplike in module mode sample (phplike 2.0)

You can require the module.js of phplike, it will return the Phplike object. This object includes many functions of PHP for you to use at any time. The module mode will not change methods of the global object so it won’t be a conflict with other Node.js native functions.

    var php = require("phplike/module.js");
    var tm = php.time();
    php.sleep(10);
    var result = php.exec("ls -la");
    php.print_r(result);

Example code for php curl

    require('phplike');
    var url = "https://www.google.com.tw/search?q=php+unit+test";
    var header = {"Cookie": "xxx"};
    var c = curl_init();
    curl_setopt(c, 'CURLOPT_URL', url);
    var res = curl_exec(c);
    curl_close(c);
    console.log("respones = " + res);

Example code for php post (Using module mode)

    var php = require("phplike/module.js");
    var url = "http://localhost:8080/";
    var param = {"q": "x"};
    var header = {"Cookie": "xxx"};
    var c = php.curl_init();
    php.curl_setopt(c, 'CURLOPT_URL', url);
    php.curl_setopt(c, 'CURLOPT_POST', 1);
    php.curl_setopt(c, 'CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS', "a=bbb&c=eee");
    php.curl_setopt(c, 'CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER', header);
    var res = php.curl_exec(c);
    var responseHeader = php.getResponseHeader(); // Get header

Example code for making a blocking request

    var phplikeMod = require('phplike/module.js');
    var url = "http://localhost:8080/";
    var param = {"q": "x"};
    var header = {"Cookie": "xxx"};
    var res = phplikeMod.request("GET", url, param, header);

Functions will be implemented in the future

abs
acos

phplike Development

Visual studio: Windows will need this software in order to compile C/C++ code, you can download from here http://www.visualstudio.com/zh-tw/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#DownloadFamilies_4 . Notice! If you install vs2010 Express, it only support 32bit, so you should install the 32bit version Node.js too.