How should I access a WebDAV file server with PHP4?

Question

I've looked online for ways to do this, and I've found two PHP methods for accesing WebDAV:

• http://freshmeat.net/projects/class%5Fwebdav%5Fclient/

  This is less than ideal, because it doesn't support WebDAV at a sub-path of the server; it cannot access, say, http://my-dav-server/configuration, only http://my-dav-server

• http://php-webdav.pureftpd.org/project/php-webdav

  This requires me to compile a new PHP module, which might be necessary, but is a bit of a pain. Plus, it's not clear from the docs how to do simple things like report errors or which versions of PHP it supports.

Basically, I want a WebDAV API - doesn't matter how complex, really - that can get/put files with HTTP BASIC authentication. I don't need anything more complex than that. I'm backing this with a subversion autoversioning DAV server, but I can foresee using it in other ways, too, so I don't want to lock myself in to subversion by using an SVN-specific API.

Answer 1

If you are just looking for GET and PUT, just use Curl! That, or any other decent HTTP library. It's actually quite simple that way.