<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Returns the contents of a file in a repository</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.svn-blame.html">svn_blame</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.svn-checkout.html">svn_checkout</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.svn.html">SVN Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.svn-cat" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">svn_cat</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PECL svn >= 0.1.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">svn_cat</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the contents of a file in a repository</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.svn-cat-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>svn_cat</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$repos_url</code></span> [, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$revision_no</code></span> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Returns the contents of the URL <em><code class="parameter">repos_url</code></em> to a file in the repository, optionally at revision number <em><code class="parameter">revision_no</code></em>. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.svn-cat-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">repos_url</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> String URL path to item in a repository. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">revision_no</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Integer revision number of item to retrieve, default is the HEAD revision. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.svn-cat-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the string contents of the item from the repository on success, and <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.svn-cat-notes"> <h3 class="title">Notes</h3> <div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong><p class="simpara">This function is <em class="emphasis">EXPERIMENTAL</em>. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This function should be used at your own risk. </p></div> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.svn-cat-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-4659"> <p><strong>Example #1 Basic example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"><p> This example retrieves the contents of a file at revision 28: </p></div> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$contents </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">svn_cat</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'http://www.example.com/svnroot/calc/gui.c'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">28</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.svn-cat-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><strong>svn_list()</strong></span></li> <li class="member"><a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.ref.svn.c.cat.html" class="link external">» SVN documentation on svn cat</a></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.svn-blame.html">svn_blame</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.svn-checkout.html">svn_checkout</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.svn.html">SVN Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>