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+#!/usr/bin/env php
+<?php
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+$GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] = '../../lib/php/src';
+
+require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/Thrift.php';
+require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.php';
+require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/transport/TSocket.php';
+require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/transport/THttpClient.php';
+require_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/transport/TBufferedTransport.php';
+
+/**
+ * Suppress errors in here, which happen because we have not installed into
+ * $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/packages/tutorial' like we are supposed to!
+ *
+ * Normally we would only have to include Calculator.php which would properly
+ * include the other files from their packages/ folder locations, but we
+ * include everything here due to the bogus path setup.
+ */
+error_reporting(E_NONE);
+$GEN_DIR = '../gen-php';
+require_once $GEN_DIR.'/SharedService.php';
+require_once $GEN_DIR.'/shared_types.php';
+require_once $GEN_DIR.'/Calculator.php';
+require_once $GEN_DIR.'/tutorial_types.php';
+error_reporting(E_ALL);
+
+try {
+  if (array_search('--http', $argv)) {
+    $socket = new THttpClient('localhost', 8080, '/php/PhpServer.php');
+  } else {
+    $socket = new TSocket('localhost', 9090);
+  }
+  $transport = new TBufferedTransport($socket, 1024, 1024);
+  $protocol = new TBinaryProtocol($transport);
+  $client = new CalculatorClient($protocol);
+
+  $transport->open();
+
+  $client->ping();
+  print "ping()\n";
+
+  $sum = $client->add(1,1);
+  print "1+1=$sum\n";
+
+  $work = new tutorial_Work();
+
+  $work->op = tutorial_Operation::DIVIDE;
+  $work->num1 = 1;
+  $work->num2 = 0;
+
+  try {
+    $client->calculate(1, $work);
+    print "Whoa! We can divide by zero?\n";
+  } catch (tutorial_InvalidOperation $io) {
+    print "InvalidOperation: $io->why\n";
+  }
+
+  $work->op = tutorial_Operation::SUBTRACT;
+  $work->num1 = 15;
+  $work->num2 = 10;
+  $diff = $client->calculate(1, $work);
+  print "15-10=$diff\n";
+
+  $log = $client->getStruct(1);
+  print "Log: $log->value\n";
+
+  $transport->close();
+
+} catch (TException $tx) {
+  print 'TException: '.$tx->getMessage()."\n";
+}
+
+?>