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Offline Processing in PHP with Advanced Queuing

do, 16/05/2013 - 22:14

Offloading slow batch tasks to an external process is a common method of improving website responsiveness. One great way to initiate such background tasks in PHP is to use Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing in a producer-consumer message passing fashion. Oracle AQ is highly configurable. Messages can queued by multiple producers. Different consumers can filter messages. From PHP, the PL/SQL interface to AQ is used. There are also Java, C and HTTPS interfaces, allowing wide architectural freedom.

The following example simulates an application user registration system where the PHP application queues each new user's street address. An external system monitoring the queue can then fetch and process that address. In real life the external system might initiate a snail-mail welcome letter, or do further, slower automated validation on the address.

The following SQL*Plus script qcreate.sql creates a new Oracle user demoqueue with permission to create and use queues. A payload type for the address is created and a queue is set up for this payload.

-- qcreate.sql

connect / as sysdba
drop user demoqueue cascade;

create user demoqueue identified by welcome;
grant connect, resource to demoqueue;
grant aq_administrator_role, aq_user_role to demoqueue;
grant execute on dbms_aq to demoqueue;
grant create type to demoqueue;

connect demoqueue/welcome@localhost/orcl

-- The data we want to queue
create or replace type user_address_type as object (
  name        varchar2(10),
  address     varchar2(50)
);
/

-- Create and start the queue
begin
 dbms_aqadm.create_queue_table(
   queue_table        =>  'demoqueue.addr_queue_tab',
   queue_payload_type =>  'demoqueue.user_address_type');
end;
/

begin
 dbms_aqadm.create_queue(
   queue_name         =>  'demoqueue.addr_queue',
   queue_table        =>  'demoqueue.addr_queue_tab');
end;
/

begin
 dbms_aqadm.start_queue(
   queue_name         => 'demoqueue.addr_queue',
   enqueue            => true);
end;
/

The script qhelper.sql creates two useful helper functions to enqueue and dequeue messages:

-- qhelper.sql
-- Helpful address enqueue/dequeue procedures

connect demoqueue/welcome@localhost/orcl

-- Put an address in the queue
create or replace procedure my_enq(name_p in varchar2, address_p in varchar2) as
  user_address       user_address_type;
  enqueue_options    dbms_aq.enqueue_options_t;
  message_properties dbms_aq.message_properties_t;
  enq_id             raw(16);
begin
  user_address := user_address_type(name_p, address_p);
  dbms_aq.enqueue(queue_name         => 'demoqueue.addr_queue',
                  enqueue_options    => enqueue_options,
                  message_properties => message_properties,
                  payload            => user_address,
                  msgid              => enq_id);
  commit;
end;
/
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-- Get an address from the queue
create or replace procedure my_deq(name_p out varchar2, address_p out varchar2) as
  dequeue_options    dbms_aq.dequeue_options_t;
  message_properties dbms_aq.message_properties_t;
  user_address       user_address_type;
  enq_id             raw(16);
begin
  dbms_aq.dequeue(queue_name         => 'demoqueue.addr_queue',
                  dequeue_options    => dequeue_options,
                  message_properties => message_properties,
                  payload            => user_address,
                  msgid              => enq_id);
  name_p    := user_address.name;
  address_p := user_address.address;
  commit;
end;
/
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The script newuser.php is the part of the PHP application that handles site registration for a new user. It queues a message containing their address and continues executing:

<?php
// newuser.php

$c = oci_connect("demoqueue", "welcome", "localhost/orcl");

// The new user details
$username = 'Fred';
$address  = '500 Oracle Parkway';

// Enqueue the address for later offline handling
$s = oci_parse($c, "begin my_enq(:username, :address); end;");
oci_bind_by_name($s, ":username", $username, 10);
oci_bind_by_name($s, ":address",  $address,  50);
$r = oci_execute($s);

// Continue executing
echo "Welcome $username\n";

?>

It executes an anonymous PL/SQL block to create and enqueue the address message. The immediate script output is simply the echoed welcome message:

Welcome Fred

Once this PHP script is executed, any application can dequeue the new message at its leisure. For example, the following SQL*Plus commands call the helper my_deq() dequeue function and displays the user details:

-- getuser.sql

connect demoqueue/welcome@localhost/orcl

set serveroutput on
declare
  name varchar2(10);
  address varchar2(50);
begin
  my_deq(name, address);
  dbms_output.put_line('Name     : ' || name);
  dbms_output.put_line('Address  : ' || address);
end;
/

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