PHP gearman - calling a gearman worker within a gearman worker - php

Question

I am very new to gearman. I am trying to write a PHP script to download scripts from a URL and upload it to user's google drive. sort of a backup script..
What I am trying to do is to call initiate a gearman worker process within the process to first download the image from source to a temp dir and then upload it to the google drive. here is the script:
<?php
require_once "../classes/drive.class.php";
$worker = new GearmanWorker();
$worker-> addServer('localhost');
$worker->addFunction('init', 'downloader');
$worker->addFunction('upload', 'uploader');
function downloader($job){
// downloads the images from facebook
$data = unserialize($job->workload()); // receives serialized data
$url = $data->url;
$file = rand().'.jpg';
$saveto = __DIR__.'/tmp/'.$file;
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$raw=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
if(file_exists($saveto)){
unlink($saveto);
}
$fp = fopen($saveto,'x');
fwrite($fp, $raw);
fclose($fp);
// create a gearman client to upload image to google drive
$client = new GearmanClient();
$client->addServer();
$data['file'] = $saveto;
return $client->doNormal('upload', serialize($data)); // ensure synchronous dispatch
// can implement a post request return call, to denote a loading point on a loading bar.
}
function uploader($job){
$data = unserialize($job->workload());
$file = $data->file;
$google = $data->google;
$drive = new Drive($google);
return $drive->init($file); // returns boolean
}
?>
The problem is when I start the worker using php worker.php & The process starts but kills itself the moment I start doing something else in the console with message "DONE" printed on my console.
How do I carry my processes out? and keep this script running?
This is a vague explanation, but Please try to look into it and help. I am really new to gearman.
Thanks

Answer 1

You're missing the work loop.
// Create the worker and configure it's capabilities
$worker = new GearmanWorker();
$worker->addServer('localhost');
$worker->addFunction('init', 'downloader');
$worker->addFunction('upload', 'uploader');
// Start the worker
while($worker->work());
// Your function definition
function downloader($job) {
// do stuff with $job
}
function uploader($job) {
// do stuff with $job
}