This handler allows you to write your logs to sockets using fsockopen or pfsockopen.

Persistent sockets are mainly useful in web environments where you gain some performance not closing/opening the connections between requests.

You can use a unix:// prefix to access unix sockets and udp:// to open UDP sockets instead of the default TCP.

Basic Example

```php <?php

use Monolog; use Monolog;

// Create the logger $logger = new Logger('my_logger');

// Create the handler $handler = new SocketHandler('unix:///var/log/httpd_app_log.socket'); $handler->setPersistent(true);

// Now add the handler $logger->pushHandler($handler, Logger::DEBUG);

// You can now use your logger $logger->addInfo('My logger is now ready');

```

In this example, using syslog-ng, you should see the log on the log server:

cweb1 [2012-02-26 00:12:03] my_logger.INFO: My logger is now ready [] []