Gonzalo Ayuso has a new post today showing you how to use the Symfony event dispatcher in a Silex-based application. His example involves a simple image processing example.

Symfony has one component called The Event Dispatcher. This component is one implementation of Mediator pattern and it’s widely used in modern frameworks, such as Symfony. Silex, as a part of Symfony, also uses this component and we can easily use it in our projects.

His example creates a Silex endpoint that creates an image with a given string. He notes that handling it all at once and then unlinking at the end of the request is one way to handle it. The other is to use the event dispatcher to add an event lister (as a closure) to happen "on terminate" to unlink the path it's been given.