functions.php

<?php

use PHPPM\ProcessSlave;

/**
 * Adds a file path to the watcher list of PPM's master process.
 *
 * If you have a custom template engine, cache engine or something dynamic
 * you probably want to call this function to let PPM know,
 * that you want to restart all workers when this file has changed.
 *
 * @param string $path
 */
function ppm_register_file($path)
{
    ProcessSlave::$slave->registerFile($path);
}

/**
 * Dumps information about a variable into your console output.
 *
 * @param mixed $expression The variable you want to export.
 * @param mixed $_          [optional]
 */
function ppm_log($expression, $_ = null)
{
    ob_start();
    call_user_func_array('var_dump', func_get_args());
    file_put_contents('php://stderr', ob_get_clean() . PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
}