parts/functions.php

<?php 
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2007 Eclipse Foundation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *    Wayne Beaton (Eclipse Foundation)- initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

/*
 * Let's not make things any harder then they need to be. For our purposes,
 * a valid file name will always be the name of a subdirectory of $root,
 * followed by a forward slash, and the name of a file.
 */
function is_valid_article_file(&$path) {
	global $root;
	
	$parts = explode('/', $path);
	if (count($parts) != 2) return false;
	$directory = $parts[0];
	$file = $parts[1];
		
	if (!is_actual_article_directory($directory)) return false;	
	if (!file_exists("$root/$directory/$file")) return false;
		
	return true;
}

/*
 * Sure, we could just do an is_dir call, but I'm being extra paranoid.
 * Since we're only breaking on a backslash, I am somewhat concerned that
 * some future version of PHP might be smart enough to automatically handle
 * backslashes in file names, or some other sort of silliness. So... either
 * the first part of the $file, is the name of an actual subdirectory of
 * "/articles", or it is not.
 */
function is_actual_article_directory(&$directory_name) {
	global $root;
	
	if ($directory_name == ".") return false;
	if ($directory_name == "..") return false;
	
	$dir_handle = @opendir($root);
	while ($file = readdir($dir_handle)) {
		if ($directory_name == $file) {
			closedir($dir_handle);
			return true;
		}
	}
	closedir($dir_handle);
	return false;
}