PHP Watch

So.. Realtime php task runner was kinda an test, since i had to travel for 4 hours today i did some proof of concept in the train.

What does it do?

PHP watch watches your folders, filers or w/e task you have given in. When one of the files changes, gets deleted or some new one is created it runs a task.

How to start?

Setting up your tasks

• Edit tasks.json
• Create an file in the tasks folder linking to your start up file
• Run code

Edit tasks.json

Your tasks.json should look something like this:

{
	"markdown": {
		"onUpdate": "markdown/parseMarkdown",
		"watch": "test/markdown/*.md",
		"output": "test/markdown/output/",
		"theme": "github.html"

	},

	"host": {
		"onLaunch": "server/startServer",
		"start": "test/markdown/output",
		"open": true,
		"host": "localhost",
		"port": 5000
	}
}

You are able to trow in extra options and loading them in your custom task by $t->youroption here. Watch is required.

The onUpdate includes the file that will be included (tasks/{youronupdate}.php) This should be filled in if you want to run a function on update. It wille be included(on each update time(so do it efficent with include_once(when needed))). You may use code like exit or die in this file to close the script (if you want to).

Run the code

Just execute: ./watch In your terminal, this will start the watcher.