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<h1 class="refname">GearmanWorker::work</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL gearman >= 0.5.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">GearmanWorker::work</span> — <span class="dc-title">Wait for and perform jobs</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>GearmanWorker::work</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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Waits for a job to be assigned and then calls the appropriate callback function.
Issues an <strong><code>E_WARNING</code></strong> with the last Gearman error if the return
code is not one of <strong><code>GEARMAN_SUCCESS</code></strong>, <strong><code>GEARMAN_IO_WAIT</code></strong>,
or <strong><code>GEARMAN_WORK_FAIL</code></strong>.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure.
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="methodname"><strong>GearmanWorker::work()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000"># create the worker<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$worker </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">GearmanWorker</span><span style="color: #007700">(); <br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000"># add the default job server (localhost)<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$worker</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">addServer</span><span style="color: #007700">(); <br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000"># add the reverse function<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$worker</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">addFunction</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"reverse"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"my_reverse_function"</span><span style="color: #007700">); <br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000"># start te worker listening for job submissions<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">while (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$worker</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">work</span><span style="color: #007700">()); <br /> <br />function </span><span style="color: #0000BB">my_reverse_function</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$job</span><span style="color: #007700">) <br />{ <br /> return </span><span style="color: #0000BB">strrev</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$job</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">workload</span><span style="color: #007700">()); <br />}<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="gearmanworker.addfunction.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">GearmanWorker::addFunction()</a> - Register and add callback function</span></li>
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