Hi all, I'm making an effort to clean up the streams code ready for release. I've already commited some docs to the phpdoc repository that will aid extension developers use streams.
However, there is more to streams than simple file IO; the new wrapper system provides a much richer set of operations. For example, stat and opendir are routed through the wrapper subsystem, which means that it is possible for a lot of filesystem functions to obtain information about remote files. I've put the infrastructure in place, but now I need your help: I need people that know the protocols to implement the stat and readdir functionality for FTP and HTTP. I'd like to see the remote file stat capability stuff in place for the 4.3 release: readdir is slightly more involved, so I can wait for that. FTP: ==== >From the code already written for the ftp wrapper, I can see how to determine the file size, but I don't know how to determine things like ctime and file type. For opendir/readdir, we need to enumerate/list files and folders in a dir. HTTP: ===== Again, we need to determine file size and change time. This seems quite easy - just do a HEAD request and parse the relevant headers. For readdir, I think we might need to implement a very simple DAV client? Opinions please! I'm looking for 2 volunteers, one for FTP and one for HTTP, to actually write the code - it's not much code to write, you just need to have a clue about the protocols ! :-) --Wez. -- Wez Furlong The Brain Room Ltd. -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
