The problem

Every web project have different binary data to host and handle: images, PDFs, etc. In most cases those files should be converted in different ways:

images: resize and format
PDF to image
Open office templates to MS Office documents and PDFs

Solution

This application can host a binary/text data (Documents) of a particular content type and convert it in requested way.

It intended to be deployed at separate hostname as bin.project-hostname. Also it is recommended to use cookieless domain for read-only serving of public content.

Installation

phing install
./scripts/install/plugin.php _plugin_names_to_install_
cd test/
phpunit .

Usage

We desided to use REST interface. Here are the commands.

POST

Submitting data to the service.

Url: /
Data: Document and (optionally) variables to parse if Document is a template
Return: {id : "_auto_generated_id_string_", contentType: "_content_type_",
    ext: "_standart_file_extension_", length: _file_size_, filename: "_original_file_name_"}

GET

Getting a document.

Url: /_id_string_._ext_
Data: no
Return: Document

Example: /12wkr234ser349.pdf - get document "12wkr234ser349" as PDF

Getting a document related to some restricted group

Url: /_auth_group_3_letters_/_id_string_._ext_
Data: no
Return: Document

Example: /adm/6b12YX.pdf - get document "12wkr234ser349" as PDF

Restriction of /adm/* URIs should be done externally. See section Authorization below.

DELETE

Deleting a document.

Url: /_id_string_
Data: no
Return: {}

Authorization

Authorization should be done externally.

Example: Restrict all methods except GET with apache web server

<Directory %PUT_THE_PATH_HERE%/binary/public>

    AuthName "Restricted method"
    AuthType Basic
    AuthBasicProvider file
    AuthUserFile %PUT_THE_PATH_HERE%/passwords

    <LimitExcept GET>
        Require valid-user
    </LimitExcept>

    DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>

Magic

magic.mime.mgc version 8 (file version 5.09) is compatible only with php >=5.3.11
magic.mime.mgc version 7 (file version 5.04) is compatible with php <=5.3.10
version 7 is included in distribution
to verify versions, run commands "file -v", "file magic.mime.mgc", "php -v"

Dilan / Barberry