PHP Queing background processes

What is the best way to queue backg开发者_如何学编程round processes in PHP...

Zend's job queue seems very nice but I am not able to switch to zend server what are the alternatives for doing this?

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Gearman is very capable. Here's the PECL extension, and here's a process monitor / daemon.

There's also things like the Amazon Simple Queue Service.