Phirehose

The library was constructed as a single, simple, abstract PHP class with all the functionality.

Features:

• Provide a simple interface to the Twitter Streaming API for PHP applications.
• Comply to Streaming API recommendations for error handling, reconnection, etc.
• Encourage well-behaved streaming API clients.
• Operate independently of PHP extensions (ie: shared memory, PCNTL, etc).
• Handles connection/authentication to the twitter streaming API.
• Consumes the stream handing off each status to be enqueued by a method of your choice.
• Handles graceful reconnection/back-off on connection and API errors.
• Monitors/reports performance metrics and errors.

What is new in this release:

• Various patches, fixes + PHP 5.6 compatibility.

What is new in version 0.2.4:

• Fixed bug where filter predicates got "stuck" as blank/null.
• Fixed bug where hang could occur after reconnect to quiet streams.
• Cleaned up connect() state initialization to reliably reconnect.

Limitations:

• The library doesn't:
• Decode/process tweets
• Provide any sort of queueing mechanism for asynchronous processing (though some examples are included)
• Provide any sort of inter-process communication
• Provide any non-streaming API functionality (ie: user profile info, search, etc)