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File Alteration Monitor Functions

Introducere

FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of changes. More information about FAM is available at » https://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/.

A PHP script may specify a list of files for FAM to monitor using the functions provided by this extension.

The FAM process is started when the first connection from any application to it is opened. It exits after all connections to it have been closed.

Notă: Această extensie a fost transferată în repozitoriul » PECL şi nu mai este furnizată împreună cu PHP începând cu versiunea 5.1.0.

Notă: Această extensie nu este disponibilă pe platformele Windows.

Necesităţi

This extension uses the functions of the » FAM library, developed by SGI. Therefore you have to download and install the FAM library.

Instalarea

To use PHP's FAM support you must compile PHP --with-fam[=DIR] where DIR is the location of the directory containing the lib and include directories.

Configuraţia la rulare

Această extensie nu are directive de configurare definite în php.ini.

Tipurile resurselor

There are two resource types used in the FAM module. The first one is the connection to the FAM service returned by fam_open(), the second a monitoring resource returned by the fam_monitor_XXX functions.

Constante predefinite

Constantele de mai jos sunt definite de această extensie şi vor fi disponibile doar dacă această extensie a fost compilată în interiorul PHP, sau a fost încărcată dinamic în timpul rulării.

FAM event constants
Constant Description
FAMChanged (integer) Some value which can be obtained with fstat(1) changed for a file or directory.
FAMDeleted (integer) A file or directory was deleted or renamed.
FAMStartExecuting (integer) An executable file started executing.
FAMStopExecuting (integer) An executable file that was running finished.
FAMCreated (integer) A file was created in a directory.
FAMMoved (integer) This event never occurs.
FAMAcknowledge (integer) An event in response to fam_cancel_monitor().
FAMExists (integer) An event upon request to monitor a file or directory. When a directory is monitored, an event for that directory and every file contained in that directory is issued.
FAMEndExist (integer) Event after the last FAMEExists event.

Cuprins