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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.
+ *
+ * @package log4php
+ */
+
+/**
+ * A simple layout.
+ *
+ * Returns the log statement in a format consisting of the
+ * <b>level</b>, followed by " - " and then the <b>message</b>.
+ *
+ * For example the following php and properties files
+ *
+ * {@example ../../examples/php/layout_simple.php 19}<br>
+ *
+ * {@example ../../examples/resources/layout_simple.properties 18}<br>
+ *
+ * would result in:
+ *
+ * <samp>INFO - Hello World!</samp>
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 1213283 $
+ * @package log4php
+ * @subpackage layouts
+ */
+class LoggerLayoutSimple extends LoggerLayout {
+    /**
+     * Returns the log statement in a format consisting of the
+     * <b>level</b>, followed by " - " and then the
+     * <b>message</b>. For example,
+     * <samp> INFO - "A message" </samp>
+     *
+     * @param LoggerLoggingEvent $event
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public function format(LoggerLoggingEvent $event) {
+        $level = $event->getLevel();
+        $message = $event->getRenderedMessage();
+        return "$level - $message" . PHP_EOL;
+    }
+}