<?php

$client = new GearmanClient();
$client->addServer();

// initialize the results of our 3 "query results" here
$userInfo = $friends = $posts = null;

// This sets up what gearman will callback to as tasks are returned to us.
// The $context helps us know which function is being returned so we can
// handle it correctly.
$client->setCompleteCallback(function(GearmanTask $task, $context) use (&$userInfo, &$friends, &$posts) {
switch ($context)
{
case 'lookup_user':
$userInfo = $task->data();
break;
case 'baconate':
$friends = $task->data();
break;
case 'get_latest_posts_by':
$posts = $task->data();
break;
}
});

// Here we queue up multiple tasks to be execute in *as much* parallelism as gearmand can give us
$client->addTask('lookup_user', 'joe@joe.com', 'lookup_user');
$client->addTask('baconate', 'joe@joe.com', 'baconate');
$client->addTask('get_latest_posts_by', 'joe@joe.com', 'get_latest_posts_by');

echo "Fetching...\n";
$start = microtime(true);
$client->runTasks();
$totaltime = number_format(microtime(true) - $start, 2);

echo "Got user info in: $totaltime seconds:\n";
var_dump($userInfo, $friends, $posts);

<?php

$worker = new GearmanWorker();
$worker->addServer();

$worker->addFunction('lookup_user', function(GearmanJob $job) {
// normally you'd so some very safe type checking and query binding to a database here.
// ...and we're gonna fake that.
sleep(3);
return 'The user requested (' . $job->workload() . ') is 7 feet tall and awesome';
});

$worker->addFunction('baconate', function(GearmanJob $job) {
sleep(3);
return 'The user (' . $job->workload() . ') is 1 degree away from Kevin Bacon';
});

$worker->addFunction('get_latest_posts_by', function(GearmanJob $job) {
sleep(3);
return 'The user (' . $job->workload() . ') has no posts, sorry!';
});

while ($worker->work());

ryan@ryan-lamp:~$ ps aux | grep gearman* | grep -v grep
gearman 1504 0.0 0.1 60536 1264 ? Ssl 11:06 0:00 /usr/sbin/gearmand --pid-file=/var/run/gearman/gearmand.pid --user=gearman --daemon --log-file=/var/log/gearman-job-server/gearman.log --listen=127.0.0.1
ryan 2992 0.0 0.8 43340 9036 pts/0 S+ 14:05 0:00 php /var/www/gearmand_work.php
ryan 3713 0.0 0.8 43340 9036 pts/1 S+ 14:05 0:00 php /var/www/gearmand_work.php
ryan 3715 0.0 0.8 43340 9036 pts/2 S+ 14:05 0:00 php /var/www/gearmand_work.php