ROUTER-to-DEALER in PHP

<?php
/*
* Custom routing Router to Dealer
* @author Ian Barber <ian(dot)barber(at)gmail(dot)com>
*/

// We have two workers, here we copy the code, normally these would
// run on different boxes…

function worker_a() {
$context = new ZMQContext();
$worker = $context->getSocket(ZMQ::SOCKET_DEALER);
$worker->setSockOpt(ZMQ::SOCKOPT_IDENTITY, "A");
$worker->connect("ipc://routing.ipc");

$total = 0;
while(true) {
// We receive one part, with the workload
$request = $worker->recv();
if($request == 'END') {
printf ("A received: %d%s", $total, PHP_EOL);
break;
}
$total++;
}
}

function worker_b() {
$context = new ZMQContext();
$worker = $context->getSocket(ZMQ::SOCKET_DEALER);
$worker->setSockOpt(ZMQ::SOCKOPT_IDENTITY, "B");
$worker->connect("ipc://routing.ipc");

$total = 0;
while(true) {
// We receive one part, with the workload
$request = $worker->recv();
if($request == 'END') {
printf ("B received: %d%s", $total, PHP_EOL);
break;
}
$total++;
}
}

$pid = pcntl_fork();
if($pid == 0) { worker_a(); exit(); }
$pid = pcntl_fork();
if($pid == 0) { worker_b(); exit(); }

$context = new ZMQContext();
$client = new ZMQSocket($context, ZMQ::SOCKET_ROUTER);
$client->bind("ipc://routing.ipc");

// Wait for threads to stabilize
sleep(1);

// Send 10 tasks scattered to A twice as often as B
for ($task_nbr = 0; $task_nbr != 10; $task_nbr++) {
// Send two message parts, first the address…
if(mt_rand(0, 2) > 0) {
$client->send("A", ZMQ::MODE_SNDMORE);
} else {
$client->send("B", ZMQ::MODE_SNDMORE);
}
// And then the workload
$client->send("This is the workload");
}

$client->send("A", ZMQ::MODE_SNDMORE);
$client->send("END");

$client->send("B", ZMQ::MODE_SNDMORE);
$client->send("END");

sleep (1); // Give 0MQ/2.0.x time to flush output