Improve developer UX for using local evaluation in PHP client

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php

Research direction

Review the PHP client's current local evaluation implementation and the documentation for setting up local evaluation with the environment document cache. Compare how other clients expose local evaluation and TTL behavior, then update the PHP behavior and setup guidance so the requested enableLocalEvaluation flow and exact working steps are covered.

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Description

As per the issues #99 & #101, there are a few developer UX issues when using local evaluation in our PHP client which we should try to resolve.

The key issue here is that it is currently required to create a separate cron job to update the environment document cache outside of the integration of the Flagsmith SDK into the customer application. It may not be possible to remove this, but there are improvements that we can make:

  1. The documentation is not overly clear - we should provide exact steps on how to achieve a working set up of local evaluation mode in PHP
  2. The functionality to enable local evaluation mode relies on the environmentTtl property which, when set in the client itself and not in the cron job, seemingly has no effect other than to enable local evaluation mode. We should look to bring this functionality more in-line with the rest of the clients, and add an enableLocalEvaluation argument.
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