title: Best PHP client library for accessing RabbitMQ (AMQP)?
body: <p>There is a <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/how.html#clients" rel="noreferrer">list of PHP clients on the RabbitMQ site</a>.  I'm asking this question in hopes that people who have used any of these can share their experiences here. E.g.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Did you have any trouble installing?</li>
  <li>Is it stable?</li>
  <li>Were there any performance issues?</li>
  <li>How is the documentation / support?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Even if you've just used one of these libraries, please share your experiences.</p>
  
  <p>For reference, here are some of the clients listed:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.amqp.php" rel="noreferrer">PHP manual page for AMQP</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/php-amqp/" rel="noreferrer">php-amqp - a client developed and used by StudiVZ, originally based on RabbitMQ-C</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/php-amqplib/" rel="noreferrer">php-amqplib a port of py-amqplib</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/tnc/php-amqplib" rel="noreferrer">php-amqplib a fork of php-amqplib updated to support PHP 5.3</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/amqp" rel="noreferrer">PECL release of the AMQP client</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>P.S. I know that "Best ..." is "subjective", but the point of this question is to collect experiences and help people make an informed decision about these AMQP libraries.  Please don't knee-jerk close this question just because it has the word "best" in it.</p>
  
  <p>P.P.S. I'm using PHP 5.3 on RHEL 5. </p>