The ServerGrove blog has posted another in their series of Symfony2 component spotlights with a look at the Filesystem component.

The 15th post of the Symfony2 components series is focused on the Filesystem component, which provides some basic utilities to work with the filesystem. It extends PHP built-in functions such as mkdir() or copy() to make them more portable and easier to use and test.

They start by stating the common problems with working in the file system from PHP and the warnings/errors that can come with them. They show how this kind of thing can be prevented with the Filesystem component and the functionality it provides. They also list some of the other useful functions (besides mkdir and touch previous mentioned) including: chmod, rename, makePathRelative and mirror. They also briefly mention the file locking ability the component has to prevent issues with multiple services interacting with the same files.