Question

I am new for redis and currently I am using PHP resque for redis. How can I define a job in php resque?

Answer 1

Queueing Jobs

Jobs are queued as follows:

require_once 'lib/Resque.php';

// Required if redis is located elsewhere
Resque::setBackend('localhost:6379');

$args = array(
    'name' => 'Chris'
);

Resque::enqueue(‘default’, ‘My_Job’, $args);
Defining Jobs

Each job should be in it’s own class, and include a perform method.

class My_Job
{
    public function perform()
    {
        // Work work work
        echo $this->args['name'];
    }
}

When the job is run, the class will be instantiated and any arguments will be set as an array on the instantiated object, and are accessible via $this->args.

Any exception thrown by a job will result in the job failing – be careful here and make sure you handle the exceptions that shouldn’t result in a job failing.