php-rdkafka/php-rdkafka

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2181 stars · 275 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

php-rdkafka is a stable, production-ready PHP extension binding to librdkafka for Apache Kafka. It provides low-level and high-level producer, consumer, and metadata APIs for producing and consuming Kafka messages from PHP applications.

Use cases

• produce messages to kafka from php
• consume kafka topics in php
• build event-driven php applications with kafka
• stream data between services using kafka
• php kafka producer and consumer client
• integrate kafka messaging into a php backend

When to choose

• your PHP application needs a fast, battle-tested Kafka client
• you want a low-level, un-opinionated librdkafka binding with long-term support
• you need both high-level and low-level consumer/producer APIs
• you run PHP 8.x with modern librdkafka and Kafka brokers

When to avoid

• you use a language other than PHP
• you need a pure-PHP client without compiling a C extension
• you use a message broker other than Kafka
• you need PHP 5 support on the latest version

Facets

library · maturity stable

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