<p>I like this proposal, it makes some stuff quite easier. On most systems you have to struggle with the tmp_filename functions. A common ways is always good there. I'd like to see this component moving to the core.</p>

<p>I'd really like to see this in core. Maybe some functions can be added to search files in a path and function to help construct include paths:</p>
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public static function setIncludePath($dir, ...) { }
public static function addIncludePath($dir, ...) { }
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<p>Maybe a good thing to note somewhere: What is an extention? Is it the part after the last or the first period?</p>

<p>Hi Stefan!<br />
I'd also like to see this in core.</p>

<p>And as Vincent noted, some methods would be nice to add. Like the Search methods if path is an directory.</p>

<p>A method which can be used to check if a given path is within a defined 'root path'.</p>
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$path = '/home/user/gallery/foo/bar/picture123.jpg';
public static function isWithinPath($path, '/home/user/gallery') {}
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<p>I would also allow to instantiate a new instance of Zend_Path like Zend_Uri.<br />
So you can:</p>
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$path = Zend_Path:factory('/home/user/foo.jpg');
$path->getExtension();
$path->getDirectoryName();
$path->isWithinPath('/home/user');

// More methods:
$path->addRegex('/([a-zA-Z0-9-\\])\/([a-zA-Z0-9])\.jpg/');
// or perhaps with existing Zend_Validators...
$path->addValidator(new Zend_Validator_Regex());
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<p>Checked in at SVN url <a class="external-link" href="http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/zf-proposals/Zend_Path/trunk">http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/zf-proposals/Zend_Path/trunk</a>.</p>

<p>Changend SVN url to <a class="external-link" href="http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/zf-proposals/trunk">http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/zf-proposals/trunk</a></p>

<p>I was looking for exactly this, so I've checked-out your SVN.</p>

<p>This looks very very promising <ac:emoticon ac:name="laugh" /><br />
I hope it gets in the core fast! I will start using it from now</p>

<p>But I think there's a small bug in:</p>
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<li>Path.php 23 2008-07-05 08:57:19Z sgehrig</li>
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<p>Because the idea of this class is to unify all paths to the forwards slashes, right?<br />
While the following will replace all '/' for the OS specific directory separator:</p>
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private static function _normalizeDirectorySeparators($path)

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<p>So I think this should be like:</p>
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private static function _normalizeDirectorySeparators($path)

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<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>The Zend team is rejecting this proposal at this time.</p>

<p>In almost every case, the methods proposed are wrappers for existing PHP function calls and/or constants, and are more verbose. In a few cases, they wrap multiple function calls, bringing added value, but we do not feel these cases justify the creation of the class.</p>

<p>There are several methods, however, that we would like to add to Zend_Loader:</p>
<ul>
<li>getTempFileName()/getTempFileDirectory()</li>
<li>set/prepend/appendPrefixPath()<br />
These go along with the duties already present in Zend_Loader and would simplify and/or augmet the current functionality. We invite the proposal author to submit feature requests to the tracker for adding these methods.</li>
</ul>
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