Re: Filesystem path APIs
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:13:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Filesystem path APIs | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 3:44 PM Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 10:20 PM Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi internals
> >
> > I'd like to start a pre-RFC discussion about filesystem path APIs in PHP.
> > The reason I bring this up is because of this recent feature request:
> > https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11258
> >
> > The feature request is about the following:
> > We already have some functions to work with paths in PHP, e.g. basename,
> > dirname, realpath.
> > We do not have some common path APIs that you can find in other languages
> > like: path_join to join paths and path_normalize to normalize paths.
> >
>
> We have a lot of commonly used functionality that's successfully fulfilled
> by Composer packages - does this really have to be core functionality?
>
if any of them could be a easy win, relative path resolver without checking
its existence would be one. It is available internally but the existence
check option is not exposed.
>