text: PHP client for Thrift 0.5.0, for Yii.
  As thrift is extensively used by Facebook, which is using PHP in frontend, I think that may prove that thrift is php friendly. So I choose to use it to communicate with python and java in my project.
  Requirements ¶
  Yii 1.1 or above
  Usage ¶
  As a consumer of a thrift service, first you need to get the .thrift definition file, then using the thrift compiler generate interface files, as in Windows: ~~~ [shell] thrift.exe -gen php:oop service_defination.thrift ~~~ the generated files will be in a gen-php folder, a folder with the name of the php namespace definition in the .thrift file.
  I assume you already extracted this extension at application.vendors directory, now copy the generated files to application.vendors.thrift.src.packages
  Now add something in the config file:
  'components' => array( ... 'thrift'=>array( 'class'=>'application.vendors.thrift.ThriftClient', 'server_host'=>'localhost', 'server_port'=>'9090', 'send_timeout'=>1, 'recv_timeout'=>5, 'service_config'=>array( 'search'=>array('server_host'=>'localhost','server_port'=>'11901'), 'classifier'=>array('server_host'=>'','server_port'=>'11900'), ), ), ... ),
  Configuration, it's done! Now you can use thrift in your code as this:
  Yii::app()->thrift->service_namespace->service_method();
  service_namespace is the namespace definition in the .thrift file, service_method is the method you want invoke in the service.
  The client used TBufferedTransport as default transport, you can modify the ThriftClient.php around line 29 as you need
  Resources ¶
  If you run into a problem, email me or leave a comment. leric.zhang#gmail.com
  Change Log ¶
  - thrift_0.2 Fix connection init bug, Add multiple service config support
  If you have any questions, please ask in the forum instead.