PHP Helpers: File Functions

• Version: v1.0.0
• Date: April 07 2020
• Release notes
• GitHub repository

A collection of helpful functions related to creating and modifying files and directories

Installation

This library is installed via Composer. To install, use composer require pointybeard/helpers-functions-files or add "pointybeard/helpers-functions-files": "~1.0" to your composer.json file.

And run composer to update your dependencies:

$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ php composer.phar update

Requirements

This library makes use of the pointybeard/helpers-exceptions-readabletrace, pointybeard/helpers-functions-flags, and pointybeard/helpers-functions-cli packages. They are installed automatically via composer.

To include all the PHP Helpers packages on your project, use composer require pointybeard/helpers or add "pointybeard/helpers": "~1.2" to your composer file.

Usage

This library is a collection of helpful functions related to creating and modifying files and directories. They are included by the vendor autoloader automatically. The functions have a namespace of pointybeard\Helpers\Functions\Files

The following functions are provided:

• realise_directory(string $path, int $flags = null): void
• create_symbolic_link(string $target, ?string $destination, int $flags = null): void

Example usage:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);
include __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

use pointybeard\Helpers\Functions\Files;

// Make a test directory and make sure that's where we're working from
Files\realise_directory('test/dest/', Files\FLAG_FORCE);

// Creating a symbolic link requires the cwd to be the destination for the link
chdir('./test');

/*** Example 1: Create a symbolic link in ./test ***/
Files\create_symbolic_link('../README.md', null, Files\FLAG_FORCE);
var_dump(file_exists('README.md'), is_link('README.md'));
// bool(true)
// bool(true)

/*** Example 2: Try to create the same symbolic link again, but this time without ***/
// using Files\FLAG_FORCE
try {
    Files\create_symbolic_link('../README.md');
} catch (Files\Exceptions\Symlink\DestinationExistsException $ex) {
    var_dump('ERROR: '.$ex->getMessage());
}
// string(46) "ERROR: Symbolic link README.md already exists."

/*** Example 3: Attempt to make a link to a file that doesn't exist ***/
try {
    Files\create_symbolic_link('../NOTAFILE');
} catch (Files\Exceptions\Symlink\TargetMissingException $ex) {
    var_dump('ERROR: '.$ex->getMessage());
}
// string(55) "ERROR: Symbolic link target ../NOTAFILE does not exist."

/*** Example 4: Attempt to create a symbolic link where we don't have permissions to ***/
try {
    // Go somewhere we're not supposed to
    chdir('/');
    Files\create_symbolic_link(realpath(__DIR__.'/LICENCE'), 'naughty');
} catch (Files\Exceptions\Symlink\CreationFailedException $ex) {
    var_dump('ERROR: '.$ex->getMessage());
}
//string(160) "ERROR: Symbolic link '/naughty' could not be created. Returned:
//  Failed to run command. Returned: ln: failed to create symbolic link 'naughty': Permission denied"

Support

If you believe you have found a bug, please report it using the GitHub issue tracker, or better yet, fork the library and submit a pull request.

Contributing

We encourage you to contribute to this project. Please check out the Contributing documentation for guidelines about how to get involved.

License

"PHP Helpers: File Functions" is released under the MIT License.