I'm looking for a solution to detect changes in folder(s) using php. The application may run on both platforms(linux and windows). I may use different methods for each platform as long as results are the same. What I desire is :

  1. If a file/folder is added to a directory, I want my app to detect this new file and read its attributes (size,filetime etc)
  2. If a existing file/folder is saved/contents changed/deleted, I need to detect this file is changed
  3. It would be better if I can monitor a base folder outside webroot of apache (such as c:\tmp, or d:\music on windows or /home/ertunc on linux)

I read something on inotify but I'm not sure it meets my needs.

php shell notifications directory multiplatform
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