4 This handler allows you to write your logs to sockets using [fsockopen](http://php.net/fsockopen)
5 or [pfsockopen](http://php.net/pfsockopen).
7 Persistent sockets are mainly useful in web environments where you gain some performance not closing/opening
8 the connections between requests.
10 You can use a `unix://` prefix to access unix sockets and `udp://` to open UDP sockets instead of the default TCP.
19 use Monolog\Handler\SocketHandler;
22 $logger = new Logger('my_logger');
25 $handler = new SocketHandler('unix:///var/log/httpd_app_log.socket');
26 $handler->setPersistent(true);
28 // Now add the handler
29 $logger->pushHandler($handler, Logger::DEBUG);
31 // You can now use your logger
32 $logger->addInfo('My logger is now ready');
36 In this example, using syslog-ng, you should see the log on the log server:
38 cweb1 [2012-02-26 00:12:03] my_logger.INFO: My logger is now ready [] []