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 <refnamediv>
  <refname>EvEmbed::__construct</refname>
  <refpurpose>Constructs the EvEmbed object</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <modifier>public</modifier>
   <methodname>EvEmbed::__construct</methodname>
   <methodparam>
    <type>object</type>
    <parameter>other</parameter>
   </methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt">
    <type>callable</type>
    <parameter>callback</parameter>
   </methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt">
    <type>mixed</type>
    <parameter>data</parameter>
   </methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt">
    <type>int</type>
    <parameter>priority</parameter>
   </methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   This is a rather advanced watcher type that lets to embed one event loop
   into another(currently only IO events are supported in the embedded loop,
   other types of watchers might be handled in a delayed or incorrect fashion
   and must not be used).
  </para>
  <para>
   See
   <link
  xlink:href="http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod#code_ev_embed_code_when_one_backend_">the
  libev documentation</link>
   for details.
  </para>
  <para>
   This watcher is most useful on
   <emphasis>BSD</emphasis>
   systems without working
   <literal>kqueue</literal>
   to still be able to handle a large number of sockets. See example below.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <variablelist>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
     <parameter>other</parameter>
    </term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      Instance of
      <classname>EvLoop</classname>
      . The loop to embed, this loop must be embeddable(see
      <methodname>Ev::embeddableBackends</methodname>
      ).
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
     <parameter>callback</parameter>
    </term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      See
      <link linkend="ev.watcher-callbacks">Watcher callbacks</link>
      .
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
     <parameter>data</parameter>
    </term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      Custom data associated with the watcher.
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
     <parameter>priority</parameter>
    </term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      <link linkend="ev.constants.watcher-pri">Watcher priority</link>
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns EvEmbed object on success.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
 <example>
   <title>Embedding loop created with kqueue backend into the default loop</title>
   <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
/*
 * Check if kqueue is available but not recommended and create a kqueue backend
 * for use with sockets (which usually work with any kqueue implementation).
 * Store the kqueue/socket-only event loop in loop_socket. (One might optionally
 * use EVFLAG_NOENV, too)
 *
 * Example borrowed from
 * http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod#Examples_CONTENT-9
 */
$loop        = EvLoop::defaultLoop();
$socket_loop = NULL;
$embed       = NULL;

if (Ev::supportedBackends() & ~Ev::recommendedBackends() & Ev::BACKEND_KQUEUE) {
    if (($socket_loop = new EvLoop(Ev::BACKEND_KQUEUE))) {
        $embed = new EvEmbed($loop);
    }
}

if (!$socket_loop) {
    $socket_loop = $loop;
}

// Now use $socket_loop for all sockets, and $loop for anything else
?>
]]>
   </programlisting>
  </example>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <simplelist>
   <member>
    <methodname>Ev::embeddableBackends</methodname>
   </member>
  </simplelist>
 </refsect1>
</refentry>
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