Posted by AirYT on 12/18/06 19:04

"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:39:27 GMT, "AirYT" <airyt@funkychickens.org> wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for an implementation for diffing 2 (text) files and spitting
>>out the output using php only. i would like to extend this to use ftp to
>>diff two files on two ftp servers, or one local file & a remote ftp
>>server.
>>
>>Anyone have any ideas on source for this before i go ahead and build it?
>>At
>>least the diff engine? a nice gui would be best, but not totally
>>necessary.
>
> For the diff engine part:
>
> http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Diff
> (I've been using this for a while and it's fine)
>
> http://pecl.php.net/package/xdiff
> (Not pure PHP, it's a compiled extension)
>
> Or shell out to an external diff command.
>
> --
> Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
> http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space :: disk and FTP usage analysis tool


thanks - ever seen a good GUI diff done in php?

regards, yt

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