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A Class the facilitates the search of filesystems

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License: PHP

Description

File_Find, created as a replacement for its Perl counterpart, also named
File_Find, is a directory searcher, which handles, globbing, recursive
directory searching, as well as a slew of other cool features.

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

• Sterling Hughes (sterling) — lead, active
• Mika Tuupola (tuupola) — lead, active
• Anatoly Techtonik (techtonik) — developer, active

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 4.0.0)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.4.0b1)

Releases

• 1.3.3 (stable, 2014-03-09)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  Fix release

• 1.3.2 (stable, 2012-10-23)
• 1.3.1 (stable, 2010-10-05)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  QA release
  package 2.0
  Bug #2132 Doc state &search() can be called statically. It isn't true.
  Bug #2773 Directories with other directories named 0
  Bug #4669 Repeated calls to search or maptree return multiple copies of results
  Bug #4983 Error in install
  Bug #4994 Close TODO
  Bug #7966 File_Find Stream Support
  Bug #14816 Unit test failures

• 1.3.0 (stable, 2006-06-30)
• 1.2.2 (stable, 2006-02-17)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  + Empty pattern workaround from bug #6173 also in glob method

  Various 'enhancements' to 'shell' method
  http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.filesystem.file-find.searchmethods.php

  * Empty pattern specified in 'shell' is equal to '*.*'

  - Empty exclude mask of a 'shell' pattern is detected correctly now

  + Use *. to match files without extension

  + use filename.*. to match files with only one 'extension' (bug #5503)

• 1.2.1 (stable, 2006-02-02)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  * Fixed bug #5892 and other "Only variable references should be returned
  by reference" errors.

  * Fixed bug #6173. Check for empty strings given as ereg to search().

  * silence errors if mapTreeMultiple() encounters an unreadable
  directory (thanks to Erik Stainsby)

• 1.2.0 (stable, 2005-10-04)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  + new 'shell' match method

• 1.1.0 (stable, 2005-09-13)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  * use only native system directory delimiters for consistency

  * search() method can now match files, directories or both

  * port tests to windows platform

• 1.0.1 (stable, 2005-08-30)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  * fixed package.xml to avoid installation problems with PHP 5.1.X

• 0.4.0 (beta, 2005-06-03)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  * Error handling now uses PEAR::raiseError() instead of FileFindException.
  This might cause BC break if you were checking errors with is_a()
  instead of PEAR::isError() of File_Find::isError()!

  * All output is now consistent having the leading directory separator
  stripped out from directory names.

  - FileFindException error class was removed

  - File_Find_version() method was removed

• 0.3.1 (beta, 2005-01-13)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  * fixed bug search() where static calls to search() failed
  if it was called inside instance of another object
  (Anatoly Techtonik)

• 0.3.0 (beta, 2004-12-17)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  * search() can now be called statically (bug #2132)

  * search() can now optionally match only against filename only (req #712)

  * fixes problems with directories named 0 (bug #2773)

• 0.2.0 (stable, 2002-11-14)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  * added mapTreeMultiple() function / method

  * improved portability for non UNIX platforms

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