ESL Reference

Following are the most important functions and their arguments, as per how they are available in all ESL implementations for the various programming languages.

eslSetLogLevel

eslSetLogLevel($loglevel) 

Calling this function within your program causes your program to issue informative messages related to the Event Socket Library on STDOUT.

The values for $loglevel are the usual:

• 0 is EMERG
• 1 is ALERT
• 2 is CRIT
• 3 is ERROR
• 4 is WARNING
• 5 is NOTICE
• 6 is INFO
• 7 is DEBUG

ESLevent Object

This is the object that represent an Event, can be created (with new()) or received. Its methods are as follows:

new

new($event_type [, $event_subclass]) 

Instantiates a new event object of that type. Optionally, in case of CUSTOM and other type of events, you specify the subclass.

serialize

serialize([$format]) 

Print the event into colon-separated 'name: value' pairs similar to a sip/email packet (the way it looks on '/events plain all').

$format can be:

• "xml"
• "json"
• "plain" (default)

setPriority

setPriority([$number]) 

Sets...