Chapter 9. Reactive Extensions in PHP
In this chapter, we'll talk about Reactive extensions in PHP, a PHP library that allows PHP programmers to work with PHP in a reactive manner, and how to use in event, also known as publish-subscribe programming. We'll also discuss the idea of functional programming in PHP and how to program in a more succinct way. We will also discuss the following topics:
- Map
- Reduce
- Defer
- Reactive extensions in the following use cases:
- Data analysis of logs (parsing Apache logs)
- Queueing systems (asynchronously working through a queue of tasks)
- Events
Reactive extensions are a way to code in a functional way using PHP. They are a set of libraries (available on GitHub at https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPHP) that can help you compose ...
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