How to install ZeroMQ with PHP binding on Ubuntu 11.10

By Alexander van Noord on 3 May, 2012

Some version numbers:

• Ubuntu 11.10 server (64-bit)
• PHP 5.3.6
• ZeroMQ 2.1.11
• VirtualBox 4.1.8

Make sure you have all the packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autoconf 
\ uuid-dev php5 php5-dev pkg-config git

Installing ZeroMQ:

wget http://download.zeromq.org/zeromq-2.1.11.tar.gz 
tar -xvzf zeromq-2.1.11.tar.gz
cd zeromq-2.1.11.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Installing the PHP binding:

git clone git://github.com/mkoppanen/php-zmq.git
cd php-zmq
phpize && ./configure
make
sudo make install

And finally add the following line to your /etc/php5/(apache2|cli)/php.ini:

extension=zmq.so

Testing if it works, add this to zmq.php:

<?php var_dump(class_exists('ZMQContext')); ?>

And run:

php zmq.php