# fam_monitor_directory

(PHP 5 < 5.1.0)

fam_monitor_directory — Monitor a directory for changes

### 说明

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

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.

### 参数

`fam`

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

`dirname`

  Path to the monitored directory

### 返回值

Returns a monitoring resource or `FALSE` on errors.

### 参见

- fam_monitor_file() - Monitor a regular file for changes
- fam_monitor_collection() - Monitor a collection of files in a directory for changes
- fam_cancel_monitor() - Terminate monitoring
- fam_suspend_monitor() - Temporarily suspend monitoring
- fam_resume_monitor() - Resume suspended monitoring