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bcrowe/growl
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Growl notifications with PHP.

2.0.3(10y ago)1336021MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

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Growl Notifications with PHP
============================

[](#growl-notifications-with-php)

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This package aims to provide an easy and fluent interface to construct and execute commands for various desktop notification programs.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

PHP 5.4+ and one of the following notification programs:

### OS X

[](#os-x)

#### Growl & GrowlNotify

[](#growl--growlnotify)

- [Growl](http://growl.info/downloads)
- [GrowlNotify](http://growl.info/downloads#generaldownloads)

#### terminal-notifier

[](#terminal-notifier)

```
$ gem install terminal-notifier
$ brew install terminal-notifier
```

### Linux

[](#linux)

#### notify-send

[](#notify-send)

```
$ apt-get install libnotify-bin
$ yum install libnotify
```

### Windows

[](#windows)

#### Growl & GrowlNotify

[](#growl--growlnotify-1)

- [Growl](http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/default.aspx)
- [GrowlNotify](http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/help/growlnotify.aspx)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Composer

[](#composer)

```
$ composer require bcrowe/growl
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Create a new instance of the `Growl` class. You can optionally supply a `Builder` class and its path if you don't wish for the package to choose a notification program based on your system:

```