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A sane interface to PHP's libevent Extension

Install

Install it via composer:

{
	"require": {
		"chh/eventor": "*"
	}
}

Then do:

# Only if you don't have composer:
% wget http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
% php composer.phar install

Example

<?php

$base = new Eventor\Base;
$fd = STDIN;

# Call the callback every time data is
# written to $fd.
$event = $base->read($fd, function($event) {
	static $requests = 0;
	
	$requests++;
	
	if ($requests == 10) {
		$event->base->exit();
	}
	
	printf("You wrote: %s", fgets($event->fd));
});

$base->loop();

API

class Eventor

Methods

Eventor\Event read(resource $fd, callable $callback)

Creates a new read event and registers it in the event loop with the given $callback.

When data is written to $fd the callback is called and receives an instance of Eventor\Event as sole argument.

Eventor\Event write(resource $fd, callable $callback)

Creates a new write event and registers it in the event loop with the given $callback.

When data can be written to $fd the callback is called and receives an instance of Eventor\Event as sole argument.

add(Eventor\Event $event)

Register a manually created Event instance in the event loop.

delete(Eventor\Event $event)

Delete the event from the event loop, which causes it to trigger the callback never again.

loop()

Starts the event loop, this blocks until all events are dispatched (if the events are not persistent) or one of the breakLoop() or exit() methods is called on the Eventor\Base.

halt()

Breaks the loop immediately, similar to using the break keyword in a loop.

shutdown(int $timeout = -1)

Gracefully shut down the event loop by finishing the next dispatch and exiting after the timeout. The $timeout argument receives the time in microseconds when the loop should exit, when omitted the loop is exited after the next dispatch.

class Eventor\Event

The Event class is useful for more low level access to the libevent extensions' functionality and is also passed to the event handlers when they're called.

Methods

__construct(resource $fd, int $events, callable $callback)

Initializes the event instance with the file descriptor and the flags. Events is an integer consisting of one or more of these constants defined in the Eventor\Event class:

• Event::READ, listens on writes to the file descriptor.
• Event::WRITE
• Event::SIGNAL, the file descriptor is handled as signal.
• Event::TIMEOUT, triggers the event after a timeout.
• Event::PERSIST, event is not deleted from the base after the handler was called. This is set by default, you have to call setNonPersistent() to disable this flag.

Example:

<?php

use Eventor\Event,
    Eventor\Base;

$base = new Base;

$event = new Event(STDIN, Event::READ, function($event) {
	echo fgets($event->fd);
});

$base->add($event);
$base->loop();

setNonPersistent($enable = true)

Sets the event to non-persistent mode, by registering it without setting the Eventor\Event::PERSIST flag. This causes the event handler to get triggered only once.

Properties

base

The instance of the Eventor\Base, to which this event is bound. Is null in the case this event is not bound to any base.

callback

The callback which gets called when the event is ready.

fd

The fd property is the file descriptor, to which this event is bound.

License

Copyright © 2012 Christoph Hochstrasser

Eventor is licensed under the MIT license which is bundled with this package in the file LICENSE.txt.