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+<?php
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * LoggerAppenderSocket appends to a network socket.
+ *
+ * ## Configurable parameters: ##
+ *
+ * - **remoteHost** - Target remote host.
+ * - **port** - Target port (optional, defaults to 4446).
+ * - **timeout** - Connection timeout in seconds (optional, defaults to
+ *     'default_socket_timeout' from php.ini)
+ *
+ * The socket will by default be opened in blocking mode.
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 1337820 $
+ * @package log4php
+ * @subpackage appenders
+ * @license http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * @link http://logging.apache.org/log4php/docs/appenders/socket.html Appender documentation
+ */
+class LoggerAppenderSocket extends LoggerAppender {
+
+    /**
+     * Target host.
+     * @see http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php
+     */
+    protected $remoteHost;
+
+    /** Target port */
+    protected $port = 4446;
+
+    /** Connection timeout in ms. */
+    protected $timeout;
+
+    // ******************************************
+    // *** Appender methods                   ***
+    // ******************************************
+
+    /** Override the default layout to use serialized. */
+    public function getDefaultLayout() {
+        return new LoggerLayoutSerialized();
+    }
+
+    public function activateOptions() {
+        if (empty($this->remoteHost)) {
+            $this->warn("Required parameter [remoteHost] not set. Closing appender.");
+            $this->closed = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (empty($this->timeout)) {
+            $this->timeout = ini_get("default_socket_timeout");
+        }
+
+        $this->closed = false;
+    }
+
+    public function append(LoggerLoggingEvent $event) {
+        $socket = fsockopen($this->remoteHost, $this->port, $errno, $errstr, $this->timeout);
+        if ($socket === false) {
+            $this->warn("Could not open socket to {$this->remoteHost}:{$this->port}. Closing appender.");
+            $this->closed = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (false === fwrite($socket, $this->layout->format($event))) {
+            $this->warn("Error writing to socket. Closing appender.");
+            $this->closed = true;
+        }
+        fclose($socket);
+    }
+
+    // ******************************************
+    // *** Accessor methods                   ***
+    // ******************************************
+
+    /** Sets the target host. */
+    public function setRemoteHost($hostname) {
+        $this->setString('remoteHost', $hostname);
+    }
+
+    /** Sets the target port */
+    public function setPort($port) {
+        $this->setPositiveInteger('port', $port);
+    }
+
+    /** Sets the timeout. */
+    public function setTimeout($timeout) {
+        $this->setPositiveInteger('timeout', $timeout);
+    }
+
+    /** Returns the target host. */
+    public function getRemoteHost() {
+        return $this->getRemoteHost();
+    }
+
+    /** Returns the target port. */
+    public function getPort() {
+        return $this->port;
+    }
+
+    /** Returns the timeout */
+    public function getTimeout() {
+        return $this->timeout;
+    }
+}