If you're using Cassandra over PHP, you are probably aware of several bugs in the PHP Thrift interface that get in the way.

Courtesy of Jonathan Ellis, here's a list of known patches you need to apply to your PHP Thrift library:

* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-347 (TSocket Timeout)
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-638 (Block until recv timeout)
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-780 (Prevent aborts)
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-788 (Multiget more than 17 keys)

To make your life easier, you can download a patched version of Thrift 0.2 for PHP, with all patches applied, here.

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A great presentation by Cliff Moon: Dealing with the Thrift API

Cassandra.php is missing from packages/cassandra/. Hope it's not different than the last version!

Was spending lot of time with the cassandra read timeout error.

Thanks for the post. You made my life easier.