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======= Filesystem

Simple, uniform file and directory services API for PHP applications for interacting with different filesystems in a common way.

System Requirements

• PHP 5.3, or above
• PSR-0 compliant Autoloader
• PHP framework independent

At a glance ...

This is a quick look at the Filesystem API, more information on each method can be found, below. First, the application connects to a Filesystem. From that point on, reading, writing, listing, copying, moving, etc., files and folders is the same for the application, regardless of the underlying system. With the exception of the read method, each are designed to provide results for either a file or a folder. Since Exceptions can be thrown, it is recommended methods be used within Try/Catch blocks.

Filesystem Adapter Interface

What is Filesystem?

Filesystem provides a common API for File and Folder operations, including: exists, getMetadata, read, getList, write, delete, copy, move, and rename on, and between, filesystems. In addition, applications can perform basic system administrative tasks like changing the owner, group, permissions, lasted updated, and touch dates for files and folders.

Class Instantiation

After instantiating the adapter class for a specific filesystem, the application can then interact with that filesystem.

The local filesystem is default and does require any input. Other filesystems require specific types of input, as described in the Filesystem Handlers section, below.

Using the Filesystem Adapter

Applications can use $adapter to interact with files and folders as in this example of reading a file.

Filesystem API

Listed are the various methods available, an example, parameters definitions and how to access the results. It is recommended to use each method in a Try/Catch block since the method could throw an exception.

Exists

Verifies if the file or folder defined by $path exists, returns true or false.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for a file or folder

getMetadata

Retrieves an object containing metadata for the file or folder defined in $path:

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for a file or folder

Metadata

The metadata available for each type of Filesystem can vary. For the Local Filesystem, this is the list of metadata available.

Metadata about the Filesystem handler, root, persistence, default_directory_permissions, default_file_permissions and read_only.

Metadata about requested path (be it a file or folder) path, is_absolute, absolute_path, exists, owner, group, create_date, access_date, modified_date, is_readable, is_writable, is_executable, is_directory, is_file, is_link, type, name, parent, extension, file_name_without_extension, size and mime_type.

Read

To read a specific file from a filesystem:

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for a file or folder

Get List

Returns an array of files and folders for a given path, optionally recursively processing all sub-folders, and optionally limiting the results to those file extensions identified.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for a file or folder
• $recursive true (default) or false indicator of whether or not subfolders should be processed
• $extension_list Comma delimited list of file extensions which qualify
• $include_files True or false value used to exclude or include files in list
• $include_folders True or false value used to exclude or include folders in list

Write

Writes data to the file identified in the given path, optionally replacing existing data, appending to the data that already exists, or truncating the data in the file, but leaving the empty file in place.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the file
• $data Content to be written to the file
• $replace True or false value indicating whether or not an existing file should be overwritten
• $append True or false value indicating whether or not data should be appended to existing data in table
• $truncate True or false value indicating whether or not an existing data in the file should be truncated, leaving an empty file

Delete

Deletes the folder and/or files identified in the given path, recursively deleting subfolders and files if so specified.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the folder or file
• $recursive True or false value indicating if subfolders and files should be deleted, too (only valid for folder). False value for folder with subfolders will throw an exception.

Copy

Copies the file(s) and folder(s) from a filesystem to a location on the same or a different filesystem.

When copying a single file, a new filename can be specified using the target_name field.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the source folder or file
• $target_directory contains an absolute path for the target folder or file
• $target_name contains a different value for filename when copying a file a new filename is desired
• $replace True or false value indicating whether the target file, if exists, should be replaced.
• $target_handler Use if copying to a filesystem other than the current filesystem.

Move

Moves the file(s) and folder(s) from a filesystem to a location on the same or a different filesystem.

When moving a single file, a new filename can be specified using the target_name field.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the source folder or file
• $target_directory contains an absolute path for the target folder or file
• $target_name contains a different value for filename when copying a file a new filename is desired
• $replace True or false value indicating whether the target file, if exists, should be replaced.
• $target_handler Use if copying to a filesystem other than the current filesystem.

Rename

Renames the file or folder to the specified value.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the source folder or file
• $target_name contains the new value to use for filename

Change Owner

Change owner for file or folder identified in path, recursively changing the owner for all subordinate files and folders, if specified

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the folder or file
• $user_name system user name
• $recursive True or false value indicating if subfolders and files should be deleted, too (only valid for folder). False value for folder with subfolders will throw an exception.

Change Group

Change group for file or folder identified in path, recursively changing the group for all subordinate files and folders, if specified

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the folder or file
• $group_id numeric system group id
• $recursive True or false value indicating if subfolders and files should be deleted, too (only valid for folder). False value for folder with subfolders will throw an exception.

Change Permission

Change permission for file or folder identified in path, recursively changing the permission for all subordinate files and folders, if specified

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the folder or file
• $permission system user name
• $recursive True or false value indicating if subfolders and files should be deleted, too (only valid for folder). False value for folder with subfolders will throw an exception.

Touch

Update the modification time and access time for the directory or file identified in $path.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the source folder or file
• $modification_time contains a PHP time value to be used as the modification time
• $access_time contains a PHP time value to be used as the access time
• $recursive true or false value indicating if the changes should be recursively applied to subfolders and files (only for folder)

Filesystem Handlers

To use a filesystem, the application instantiates the Connection class, passing in a request for a specific filesystem adapter handler. Different types of filesystems require different input to access the environment. For example, some systems require username and password authentication. Startup properties are passed into the filesystem adapter handler using the $options array.

Local Filesystem Handler

• $options Associative array of named pair values needed to establish a connection for the adapter handler;
• $handler Identifier for the file system. Examples include Local (default), Ftp, Media, Dropbox, etc.;

FTP Filesystem Handler

This shows how to backup a file on one filesystem to another filesystem.

Parameters

• $path contains an absolute path for the source folder or file
• $target_name contains the new value to use for filename

Media Filesystem Handler

Creative Uses of Filesystem

Merged Filesystems

You can use Filesystem to easily create a merged filesystem: Just instantiate multiple classes and merge read results.

Backup

Filesystem supports copying files and folders to another filesystem. Combining this capability with an application cron job is a good way to schedule backups.

Archive

Filesystem supports moving files and folders to another filesystem, simplifying the process of content archival.

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About

Molajo Project has adopted the following:

• Semantic Versioning
• PSR-0 Autoloader Interoperability
• PSR-1 and PSR-2
• [phpDocumentor2] (https://github.com/phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor2)
• [phpUnit Testing] (https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit)
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• [Packagist] (https://packagist.org)

Submitting pull requests and features

Pull requests GitHub

Features GitHub

Author

Amy Stephen - http://twitter.com/AmyStephen
See also the list of contributors participating in this project.

License

Molajo Filesystem is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgements

W3C File API: Directories and System W3C Working Draft 17 April 2012 → specifications were followed, as closely as possible.

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