Introduction

The dredd-hooks-php tool makes it easy to hook into Dredd's events.

Dredd-hooks-php Behind the Scenes

dredd-hooks-php is a command line program that interfaces with Dredd. When it is run the follow occurs:

1. It loads hookfiles provided to it by Dredd.
2. It listens on port 61321 which allows Dredd and dredd-hooks-php to interact with each other.
3. Dredd sends events to dredd-hooks-php which are parsed and fire the corresponding hooks that were defined in the hook files.
4. dredd-hooks-php sends the transaction data back to Dredd