[Owncloud] Accessing files outside the users home folder

[Robin Appelman]

On Friday 20 January 2012 17:57:03 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> On 20.01.2012 17:13, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > As the lazy SOB that I am, I still haven't read through the code to figure
> > out how the OC_Filesystem API works. Which brings me to the point that as
> > OC_Filesystem is the foundation upon which ownCloud is build, it really
> > should be better documented. I know for a fact that there are other lazy
> > coders out there, who will take a shortcut and create a custom solution,
> > rather than figuring out the internals work - and what the bigger vision
> > is.
> 
> Yes, I very much agree for this and for other dev-topics as well, for
> example how do we integrate Sabre code, the way we use and update the
> database, how does OC_Template work etc.
> 
> I don't want to blame anybody as I know that is hard to do, but
> especially as we broaden the dev community we wont survive without...
> Maybe a blog series "Insights of ownCloud Development" or so with
> respective Wiki pages are a way to go?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Klaas

I'm aware of this issue and hope to write an explanation/tutorial for the 
whole filesystem part soon.

 - Robin Appelman