Graphdat PHP SDK

PHP Extension for Graphdat

DEPRECATED - This is now longer in use or supported.

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PHP Extension for graphdat. To find out more about graphdat visit http://dashboard.graphdat.com/landing

NOTE: For now only linux and OSX installations of the extension are supported. Watch this space for the windows version.

Steps to build the extension

• Downloaded and extract the latest tarball (https://github.com/alphashack/graphdat-sdk-php/archive/master.zip)
• Run phpize - this will create the configure script
• If you are building on an older 32-bit x86 system, e.g. CentOS or Redhat 5, run CFLAGS=-march=i686 ./configure --enable-graphdat
• Otherwise, run ./configure --enable-graphdat
• Run make
• Run sudo make install

Steps to use PECL to install the extension

• Downloaded and extract the latest tarball (https://github.com/alphashack/graphdat-sdk-php/archive/master.zip)
• Update the date in package2.xml to today
• Run pecl package
• If you are building on an older 32-bit x86 system, e.g. CentOS or Redhat 5, run CFLAGS=-march=i686 pecl install graphdat-1.0.4.tgz
• Otherwise, run pecl install graphdat-1.0.4.tgz

The extension is now installed and will need to be enabled. Adding the following line to your php.ini file

extension=graphdat.so

Restart Apache/nginx/lighthttpd and you should now see request counts and response times being reported on your graphdat dashboard.

Instrumenting your code

The extension adds two methods to PHP, graphdat_begin and graphdat_end. These methods take 1 parameter which is the name of the timer. For example:

    graphdat_begin("get info");
    phpinfo(INFO_VARIABLES);
    graphdat_end("get info");

By putting timers around parts of your codebase you can monitor in realtime how each part is performing and see trends over time, and during load.