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# fam_monitor_directory

(PHP 5 <= 5.0.5)

fam_monitor_directory — Monitor a directory for changes

### Description

resource fam_monitor_directory ( resource `$fam` , string `$dirname` )

Requests monitoring for a directory and all contained files.

A FAM event will be generated whenever the status of the directory (i.e. the result of function stat() on that directory) or its content (i.e. the results of readdir()) changes.

The possible event codes are described in detail in the constants part of this section.

### Parameters

`fam`

  A resource representing a connection to the FAM service returned by fam_open()

`dirname`

  Path to the monitored directory

### Return Values

Returns a monitoring resource or `FALSE` on errors.

### See Also

- fam_monitor_file()
- fam_monitor_collection()
- fam_cancel_monitor()
- fam_suspend_monitor()
- fam_resume_monitor()

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