Events

Getting Started

This is part of a larger Laravel Guide I am working on in this case the example is in the Events folder

Start the example

php artisan serve --port=8081

Then visit

http://localhost:8081/example1

So if you look in

app/routes.php

You see route example1 will fire and event and there are two listeners

Do they run async or sync

If you hit that route you see the sleep taking effect so it is syncronous

See in the image below an example. I reload the page and the results are staggered by the sleep amount in the route.

On the left I have

php artisan tail

Here is the route

Event::listen('example1', function()
{
    sleep(5);
    Log::info("Event one is Triggered");
});

Event::listen('example1', function()
{
    sleep(5);
    Log::info("Event two is Triggered");
});

Route::get('/example1', function()
{
    Event::fire('example1');
    return "Event Example 1";
});

So if you did not want to hold up the process you would place these into a queue.

Passing data to events

How can Event 1 alter Event 2 and Event 3

See route would be /example2

Also there is a registered event listener seen in the route file that

$subscriber = new \Acme\ExampleEventHandler;
Event::subscribe($subscriber);

Which shows how that made it hard to pass a state

$subscriber = new \Acme\ExampleEventHandler;

Event::subscribe($subscriber);

Event::listen('example2', function($state)
{
    $state->total = $state->total + 5;
    var_dump(sprintf("From The listener one state %s <br>", $state->total));

    Log::info(sprintf("Event two listener 1 is Triggered total %s", $state->total));
});

Event::listen('example2', function($state)
{
    $state->total = $state->total + 5;
    var_dump(sprintf("From The listener two state %s <br>", $state->total));

    Log::info(sprintf("Event two listener 2 is Triggered total %s", $state->total));
});

Route::get('/example2', function()
{
    $state = new stdClass();
    $state->total = 0;
    Event::fire('example2', array($state));

    return sprintf("Event Example 2 data total state %s", $state->total);
});

This one you just see in the browser