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Bit&Black Folder Watcher

Watches a folder and handles its files. This script is meant to run from your CLI.

It may be used to realise a hotfolder on your local system.

Installation

This library is made for the use with Composer. Add it to your project by running $ composer require bitandblack/folder-watcher.

Usage

Create a new object and tell it the path to the folder you want to watch and a pattern for the files you want to select:

<?php

use BitAndBlack\FolderWatcher\FolderWatcher;

$watcher = new FolderWatcher(
    '/path/to/your/folder',
    '*.txt'
);

Set a callback function to handle the files one after another:

<?php

$watcher->setCallback(static function($file) {    
    echo 'Handling file ' . $file . ' now' . PHP_EOL;
});

Start the watcher:

<?php

$watcher->watch();

Cancel the watcher

Per default the watcher is meant to run forever. You can change this by calling finishOnEmptyFolder(). It's always possible to abort by pressing the keys Ctrl + C. The script will stop after finishing the current task.

Logging

The watcher may give information about the files inside a folder and is able to pass it to the Symfony console. Set the console output object to the watcher with setOutput($consoleOutput).

Help

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us under hello@bitandblack.com.

Further information about Bit&Black can be found under www.bitandblack.com.