From 7645b440e893959846da2e8984c2a0a7e8c62a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: friendica <info@friendica.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 01:58:11 -0800
Subject: more progress on photos api

---
 include/attach.php | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include/attach.php')

diff --git a/include/attach.php b/include/attach.php
index b2c57f36f..e4ef28637 100644
--- a/include/attach.php
+++ b/include/attach.php
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 <?php
 
+/*
+ * File/attach API with the potential for revision control.
+ *
+ * TODO: a filesystem storage abstraction which maintains security (and 'data' contains a system filename
+ * which is inaccessible from the web). This could get around PHP storage limits and store videos and larger
+ * items, using fread or OS methods or native code to read/write or chunk it through.
+ * Also an 'append' option to the storage function might be a useful addition. 
+ */
+
 require_once('include/permissions.php');
 
 function z_mime_content_type($filename) {
@@ -151,6 +160,8 @@ function attach_list_files($channel_id, $observer, $hash = '', $filename = '', $
 
 }
 
+// Find an attachment by hash and revision. Returns the entire attach structure including data. 
+// This could exhaust memory so most useful only when immediately sending the data.  
 
 function attach_by_hash($hash,$rev = 0) {
 
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