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December 1, 2006
Implementating a WebDAV server in PHP
Filed under: Computer,English,School by jonasfj at 9:20 pm

As programming project in my Programming C lessons me and one of my mates (Ismail) have been developing a WebDAV server in PHP. The project was called MySQL2WebDAV, the idea was to write a WebDAV server using MySQL as data storage. As some sort of virtual file system abstraction of a MySQL database. We started of with HTTP_WebDAV_Server, an abstract base class that handles most of the WebDAV specific features.

The WebDAV server was probably one of the most difficult things I’ve ever debugged. If you ever plan to write a WebDAV server remember to check out Litmus, a WebDAV server protocol compliance test suite. Very useful stuff if you want to debug a remote WebDAV server.

Anyway, almost all platforms are shipping with WebDAV browsers, it’s definitively an interesting protocol. Just imagine a WebDAV representation of the post in your blog or content management system.

I don’t think my source can be of much use, if you want to play with WebDAV implementations in PHP. My source is both buggy, very ogly and half done, anyway I’ve it made available here (Some comments and documentation in Danish, sorry).

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