The below example of Zend_Queue shows a variety of features, including queue creation, queue retrieval, message retrieval, message deletion, and sending messages. 'queue1', ); // Create an array queue $queue = new Zend_Queue('Array', $options); // Get list of queues foreach ($queue->getQueues() as $name) { echo $name, "\n"; } // Create a new queue $queue2 = $queue->createQueue('queue2'); // Get number of messages in a queue (supports Countable interface from SPL) echo count($queue); // Get up to 5 messages from a queue $messages = $queue->receive(5); foreach ($messages as $i => $message) { echo $message->body, "\n"; // We have processed the message; now we remove it from the queue. $queue->deleteMessage($message); } // Send a message to the currently active queue $queue->send('My Test Message'); // Delete a queue we created and all of it's messages $queue->deleteQueue('queue2'); ]]>