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Virtual File System API

This package is unmaintained.

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License: LGPL

Description

This package provides a Virtual File System API, with backends for:

* SQL
* FTP
* Local filesystems
* Hybrid SQL and filesystem
* Samba
* SSH2/SFTP
* IMAP (Kolab)

Reading, writing and listing of files are all supported, and there are both object-based and array-based interfaces to directory listings.

Maintainers

• Chuck Hagenbuch (chagenbu) — lead, active
• Jan Schneider (yunosh) — lead, active

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 4.3.0)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.4.0b1)
• Log
• gettext (extension)

Releases

• 0.3.0 (beta, 2009-10-15)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  * Rename fixes for SMB driver (leena.heino@uta.fi, Horde Bug #7933).
  * Set LC_TIME to C for consistency in date parsing in the SSH2 backend (michael-dev@fami-braun.de, Horde Bug #6396)
  * Pass -n for numeric UIDs/GIDs in the SSH2 backend when mapping to local user ids (Horde Request #6579)
  * Fix readByteRange() (wrong method name) in SQL backend
  * Add readFile() support, with optimizations for file, ftp, ssh2, and smb backends
  * Add readStream() support to backends that can get a stream resource efficiently
  * Add delete() as a shorter name for deleteFile()
  * Add a Kolab VFS driver.
  * Use streams for file transfers in VFS_ssh2 (jives@jives.ixum.net, Horde Request #8323)
  * Check quota when copying files (Horde Bug #8643).

• 0.2.0 (beta, 2008-02-16)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  * Fix listing of folders with whitespace in the name using the SSH2 VFS driver (Horde Bug #6227).
  * Fix some string parsing on systems that don't have the 'en' or 'en_US' locales installed (Horde Bug #6194).
  * PHP 4.3.0+ is now required and we make unconditional use of file_get_contents().
  * Use strlen() instead of empty() to check for paths and filenames being set, to allow for potential names of 0 (zero).
  * Converted to package.xml 2.0.
  * Fix saving files in the root directory of an SQL backend.
  * Never generate paths with double slashes in them (//) (Horde Bug #5821)
  * Improve Netware FTP support (Horde Bug #5821)
  * Add read stream support to some backends (Horde Bug #5913)
  * Make the smb backend compatible with samba versions after samba-3.0.25-pre2 (felix.leimbach@gmx.net, Horde Bug #5931)

• 0.1.0 (beta, 2006-04-12)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  * SQL drivers now return empty values if the particular parameter does not exist on the server (instead of '-').
  * Add initial VFS quota support.
  * Fix autocreatePath() to work with directory paths that begin with the base directory.
  * Add 'maplocalids' and 'timeout' parameters to the FTP driver.
  * In SQL driver, allow '/' to indicate the base directory.
  * Fix return value of deleteFile() in File and SQLFile drivers (PEAR Bug #4425).
  * Fix listFolders() in File driver (PEAR Bug #4533).
  * Add size() and readByteRange(), with File and SQL implementations.
  * Add support for NetWare FTP server listings (Lukas Macura <macura@opf.slu.cz>).
  * Add support for separate read and write DB servers for the SQL driver.
  * Add copy() and move() fallback implementations for all drivers.
  * Add parameters to copy() and move() to automatically create destination directories.
  * Add SSH2/SFTP driver (Cliff Green <green@umdnj.edu>).
  * Let rename() automatically create the destination path.
  * Make sure copy/move doesn't result in infinite recursion (Horde Bug #3680).

• 0.0.5 (beta, 2005-04-07)
  Release notes

  License: LGPL

  * Fix typo that prevented the sql_file driver to load its parameters.
  * PHP 5 compatibility fixes.
  * Add 'pasv' parameter for FTP driver.
  * Add writeData() method to sql_file driver.
  * Support ~/path when a 'home' parameter is defined.
  * Add a CLI script for accessing and modifying VFS backends.
  * Added getCurrentDirectory() method.
  * phpdoc has been updated and should now generate correctly in all files.
  * Return error if trying to copy a file onto itself with the file driver (http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=168).
  * Several bug fixes to listFolders() method in SQL drivers.
  * A PEAR Log object can now be specified for logging messages to.
  * Added getParam() method.
  * Allow recursive listings in listFolder().
  * Several fixes with zero length files.
  * Fixed autocreating of directories and updating of existing files in the sql_file VFS driver (http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=1552, http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=1553).
  * Added SQL scripts to create tables for SQL backends.

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