根据php中的文件夹状态进行文件夹监控和事件触发

Question

There is a folder in which xml files are beeing copied at no particular time, when an event is happening. I want a php way to inspect the folder's status and when an xml file arrives, an event will be triggered.(ex.call to the xml parser). So which is the best way (in php) to monitor a folder and trigger events according to it's status? Thanx!

Answer 1

Haven't tried it, but maybe Inotify can help you:

inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem, and report those changes to applications.

There's a PHP extension for inotify, see Inotify ^Docs and inotify ^PECL .

Another alternative if you're running on linux is to use a PHP-independent daemon to monitor a directory for changes. You can use dnotify for it (obsoleted by inotify), something like:

dnotify -a -r -b -s /path/ -e <command>;

It will execute the command each time one of the files in other folder are modified (-a -r -b -s = any access/recursive directory lookup/run in background/no output).

Related:

• Read file change in php (linux equivalent of tail -f )
• How to efficiently monitor a directory for changes on linux?

Answer 2

You should take a look at FAM (File Alteration Monitor) . PHP 4 based binary extension (beta status); documentation .

Answer 3

I think the most simple way to do this is to use cron job to examine the folder every minute. The other option is to trigger your php script from another script/program that copies new xml file to the directory. Cron enables you to run your script every minute. If you want instant response you should write a shell script(http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/watchdir.html) that constanlty runs in the background or maybe pearl daemon to you detect new file and trigger your php script to examine changes.

Answer 4

使用cron定期scandir()目录。