Hi, stream/file is it the same?....the php function list dosen't have any programs the clearly use the function maybe you could give me a link $read = file( './logfile.txt' ) ; if( false === stream_select( $read, $write = NULL, $except = NULL, 0 ) ) print "no change on file" ; else print "change on file is present" ; thanks in advance, Coco --- In php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Laurent Valdes <valderama@xxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > historically, the problem of listeners, triggers, etc, > is that those things are what we call a > 'design pattern'. > > When doing database programming, the DBMS calls the trigger. > Inside Swing or GUI toolkit, the toolkit calls listeners by itself, > since you register a listener with an object, to make the object able > to signal the listener one of its properties has changed. > > In this field, if we tackle the problem of PHP, the problem is that > whe need to register the PHP script with a file. > > And it can be made with stream_select wich calls the select() C POSIX > function internally. The C select function makes some calls to the OS > internals. then the kernel awake the process when the given file or > stream has changed. > http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-select.php > > Good Luck, > Laurent. > > > 2005/12/19, mamontesines <mamontesines@xxxx>: > > Hi, > > > > Iam wondering has anyone tried a program that can do an onUpdate > > function? like for example I want to run a program that waits until a > > file is updated then a status report is displayed or the file is > > displayed on update/change without any use of loops. > > > > like triggers....if a database is updated or new data is inserted > > there will be a trigger that launch a file or function. > > > > if anyone has done this may you share it to us? > > > > thanks, > > coco > > > > > -- > «Un peu d'internationalisme éloigne de la patrie; beaucoup y ramène» > Jean Jaurès@<http://www.le-valdo.com> > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/saFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
