ExtractingEventDispatcher

Event dispatch(string $eventName, Event $event = null)

Dispatches an event to all registered listeners.

Parameters

string	$eventName	The name of the event to dispatch. The name of the event is the name of the method that is invoked on listeners.
Event	$event	The event to pass to the event handlers/listeners If not supplied, an empty Event instance is created

Return Value

Event

array getListeners(string $eventName = null)

Gets the listeners of a specific event or all listeners sorted by descending priority.

Parameters

string

$eventName

The name of the event

Return Value

array

The event listeners for the specified event, or all event listeners by event name

int|null getListenerPriority(string $eventName, callable $listener)

Gets the listener priority for a specific event.

Returns null if the event or the listener does not exist.

Parameters

string	$eventName	The name of the event
callable	$listener	The listener

Return Value

int|null

The event listener priority

bool hasListeners(string $eventName = null)

Checks whether an event has any registered listeners.

Parameters

string

$eventName

The name of the event

Return Value

bool	true if the specified event has any listeners, false otherwise

addListener(string $eventName, callable $listener, int $priority)

Adds an event listener that listens on the specified events.

Parameters

string	$eventName	The event to listen on
callable	$listener	The listener
int	$priority	The higher this value, the earlier an event listener will be triggered in the chain (defaults to 0)

removeListener(string $eventName, callable $listener)

Removes an event listener from the specified events.

Parameters

string	$eventName	The event to remove a listener from
callable	$listener	The listener to remove

addSubscriber(EventSubscriberInterface $subscriber)

Adds an event subscriber.

The subscriber is asked for all the events he is interested in and added as a listener for these events.

Parameters

EventSubscriberInterface

$subscriber

removeSubscriber(EventSubscriberInterface $subscriber)

Parameters

EventSubscriberInterface

$subscriber

static array getSubscribedEvents()

Returns an array of event names this subscriber wants to listen to.

The array keys are event names and the value can be:

• The method name to call (priority defaults to 0)
• An array composed of the method name to call and the priority
• An array of arrays composed of the method names to call and respective priorities, or 0 if unset

For instance:

• array('eventName' => 'methodName')
• array('eventName' => array('methodName', $priority))
• array('eventName' => array(array('methodName1', $priority), array('methodName2')))

Return Value

array

The event names to listen to