<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >fam_monitor_collection</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="File Alteration Monitor Functions" HREF="ref.fam.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="fam_close" HREF="function.fam-close.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="fam_monitor_directory" HREF="function.fam-monitor-directory.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fam-close.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fam-monitor-directory.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.fam-monitor-collection" ></A >fam_monitor_collection</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN25089" ></A ><P > (PHP 5)</P >fam_monitor_collection -- Monitor a collection of files in a directory for changes</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN25092" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >fam_monitor_collection</B > ( resource fam, string dirname, int depth, string mask)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >fam_monitor_collection()</B > requests monitoring for a collection of files within a directory. The actual files to be monitored are specified by a directory path in <VAR CLASS="parameter" >dirname</VAR >, the maximum search <VAR CLASS="parameter" >depth</VAR > starting from this directory and a shell pattern <VAR CLASS="parameter" >mask</VAR > restricting the file names to look for. </P ><P > A FAM event will be generated whenever the status of the files change. The possible event codes are described in detail in the <A HREF="ref.fam.html#fam.constants" >constants part</A > of this section. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.fam-monitor-file.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fam_monitor_file()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.fam-monitor-directory.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fam_monitor_directory()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.fam-cancel-monitor.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fam_cancel_monitor()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.fam-suspend-monitor.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fam_suspend_monitor()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.fam-resume-monitor.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fam_resume_monitor()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fam-close.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fam-monitor-directory.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >fam_close</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.fam.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >fam_monitor_directory</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >