exlude files

[alex schmid]

Hello,

first, thanks for the nice filebrowser.

One feature i missed was a way to hide some parts of the filesystem, so i put it in on my own based on regular expressions.

In the configuration-file add a line like this:
browser.entries.hide=prepared,.*~$,help,admin*,\.\.

this will hide a directory 'prepared' (from sigma template engine), all temporary saves of emacs, help, all entries starting with admin and the ..-entry in root.
note that regular expressions should be escaped there and these are relatives paths from 'root', subdirectories work.

in the file Browser.php add after:

ca. line 369:
$list = $this->getListOfEntries( $currentLocation );

// check if entry should be hidden
$hiddenEntries = Browser_Utilities :: getValueFromConfiguration("browser.entries.hide");
$arrayHiddenEntries = split (',',$hiddenEntries);

ca. line 383:
$pathToEntry = $currentLocation.Browser_Utilities :: getSeparator().$entry;
$relativePathToEntry = substr($relativePath.Browser_Utilities :: getSeparator().$entry,1);

ca. line 390:
        // skip that entry
        continue;
        }

        $stop = 0;
        foreach ($arrayHiddenEntries AS $exclude) {
            $expr = '!^'.$exclude.'!';
            preg_match($expr,$relativePathToEntry,$match);
            if (count($match)==1) {
                $stop = 1;
            }
        }
        if ($stop==1) continue;

finaly replace ca. line 407 (not really necessary):
            $entryObj->relativePath = $relativePathToEntry;
with
            $entryObj->relativePath = substr($relativePath.Browser_Utilities :: getSeparator().$entry,1); ;

Would be nice to see these changes/this function in one of the next releases.

Enjoy,
Alex

[Marek Blotny]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for interesting suggestion and code snippet! A really like the idea of heaving option which allows you can define which directories/files should be hidden. It’s easily conceivable that it might be handy in many cases. For sure I’ll enclose this feature in next release.

Cheers, Marek