I'm not looking to integrate these frameworks entirely into MediaWiki; I'm just 
talking about this one single file with one single class. (to be fair, it's 3 
classes, but they're all in that one file).

-X!

On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Chad wrote:

> I hate these frameworks, so a big -1 from me.
> 
> -Chad
> 
> On Dec 20, 2010 11:22 PM, "Soxred93" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently, I've been working with the Symfony web framework [1]. One of the
> classes they include is called the sfFinder class [2], which is a fluid,
> easy-to-use file finder class. It searches for files or directories in the
> filesystem, using a fluid PHP 5 interface. It has no dependancies, so it
> should work fine with MediaWiki. After finding numerous instances of
> opendir(), readdir(), closedir(), etc. in MediaWiki, I thought that it would
> be a good idea to use one centralized class to do all file searching. There
> is only 1 potential issue I see, though. It is MIT licensed, which is GPL
> compatible, so it should be okay to implement it, but I'm not too clear on
> this issue.
> 
> 
> The usage is simple:
> sfFinder::type('file')->name('*.php')->in('/path/to/dir'); //list of PHP
> files in directory and all subdirectories
> sfFinder::type('file')->name('*.php')->in('/path/to/dir')->recurse(0);
> //list of PHP files in that directory only
> sfFinder::type('dir')->name('foo')->in('/path/to/dir'); //list of
> directories with the name "foo"
> There is documentation at [3], but it's for an old version. The code is very
> similar though, so most of it should apply to the current version.
> 
> 
> What would people think of a change like this. I would like to see this
> happen, but I'd like some more opinions before I look into implementing it.
> 
> -X!
> 
> 
> [1] - http://www.symfony-project.org
> [2] -
> http://trac.symfony-project.org/browser/branches/1.4/lib/util/sfFinder.class.php
> [3] - http://www.symfony-project.org/cookbook/1_2/en/finder
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