Re: [PHP] Accessing Windows File Comments
On 25 February 2010 15:16, Richard Quadling wrote:
> On 25 February 2010 14:59, Floyd Resler wrote:
>> One of my users has asked if I can display comments with a file list on
>> their site. So I thought I might be able to use the comments from the
>> properties of the file. Is there any way I can access this from PHP? The
>> files are actually stored on a Linux box.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Floyd
Using LADS on a file I just added a title and summary to ...
LADS - Freeware version 4.10
(C) Copyright 1998-2007 Frank Heyne Software (http://www.heysoft.de)
This program lists files with alternate data streams (ADS)
Use LADS on your own risk!
Scanning directory D:\Personal
Files\Downloads\Software\Programming\PHP\Browscap\
size ADS in file
-- -
88 D:\Personal
Files\Downloads\Software\Programming\PHP\Browscap\php_browscap.ini:♣DocumentSummaryInformation
204 D:\Personal
Files\Downloads\Software\Programming\PHP\Browscap\php_browscap.ini:♣SummaryInformation
0 D:\Personal
Files\Downloads\Software\Programming\PHP\Browscap\php_browscap.ini:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}
292 bytes in 3 ADS listed
The funny looking symbol can is character #5 which can be entered as
^E. So, ...
more < php_browscap.ini:^ESummaryInformation > lad.log
The file lad.log now contains the content of the SummaryInformation
alternative data stream.
The format of the content of the streams I don't know, sorry.
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Re: [PHP] Accessing Windows File Comments
On 25 February 2010 14:59, Floyd Resler wrote: > One of my users has asked if I can display comments with a file list on their > site. So I thought I might be able to use the comments from the properties > of the file. Is there any way I can access this from PHP? The files are > actually stored on a Linux box. > > Thanks! > Floyd > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > The comments on a windows file (on the NTFS file system) are held in Alternative Datastreams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(filesystem)). As far as I know PHP cannot natively access them, though externals tools exist ... "LADS - Freeware version 4.10 (C) Copyright 1998-2007 Frank Heyne Software (http://www.heysoft.de) This program lists files with alternate data streams (ADS) Use LADS on your own risk!" Or are you talking about a file whose content is a list of comments? -- - Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Accessing Windows File Comments
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Floyd Resler wrote: > One of my users has asked if I can display comments with a file list on their > site. So I thought I might be able to use the comments from the properties > of the file. Is there any way I can access this from PHP? The files are > actually stored on a Linux box. > > Thanks! > Floyd > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > If you have access to read the files and the comments are clearly delineated, then its shouldn't be hard to open each file and then pull out the contents with regex or str parsing. You might want to store the data somehow, so that in the future you only have to read in the changed files. -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
