What Is Net_Growl
Be notified of major events in your application.
Introduction
Growl is a Mac OS X application that listen to notifications sent by applications and displays them on the desktop using different display styles. Net_Growl offers the possibility to send notifications to Growl (Mac or Windows) from your PHP application through network communication using UDP or GNTP protocols.
How To Install
Net_Growl takes advantage of new features in PHP 5.2 or greater.
Minimal Requirements
Before you install Net_Growl, you will need an operating system with PHP 5.2.0 or later installed.
What You Need To Install First
| Minimum Requirement | Description |
|---|---|
| PEAR Installer 1.9.4 | Used to install easily PEAR packages |
| mbstring extension | Used by the base class of Net_Growl |
| pcre extension | Used by the base class of Net_Growl |
| SPL extension | Used by the base class of Net_Growl |
| mcrypt extension (optional) | Used only with GNTP adapter and encryption features |
Installing via PEAR
Once all of the dependencies have been installed, you can then install Net_Growl using the standard PEAR installer. Run the following commands as root (on Linux, OSX, and other UNIX-like operating systems) or as a user with administrator privileges on Windows.
$ pear install -o Net_Growl
Documentation
All documentation are available online and for download in several formats.
Online Documentation
Head to the Net_Growl User Guide for information or examples to get started.
Offline Documentation
The Net_Growl book is available in a selection of formats. You can download the documentation for offline reading.
| Single HTML file | Many HTML files | HTML Help file | PDF A4 file | PDF US file | EPUB file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| netgrowl-book.html.zip | netgrowl-book.chunked.zip | netgrowl-book.chm.zip | netgrowl-book-a4.pdf | netgrowl-book-us.pdf | netgrowl-book.epub.zip |
License
Net_Growl is open-source software, licensed under the BSD license.
BSD License
The full legal text of the BSD 3-clause license is given below.
Copyright (c) 2009-2013, Laurent Laville <pear@laurent-laville.org>
Credits to :
* Bertrand Mansion <bmansion@mamasam.com>
Original author, he introduced his proposal in 2006.
All rights reserved.
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