Read local SVN repository in PHP

I have a subversion repository under /var/svn/ I am trying to use subversion to get details of the latest revision, I have tried using shell_exec to run svn info on the external address, but开发者_如何学编程 I couldn't get any input from it. Is there any way I can read the information from the repository itself?

Solved: Decided to go with the SVN PECL modudle see here

PHP has native support for SVN
^{(PECL though and not available on Windows)}

You can also use the Arbit's VCS Abstraction Layer
^{(supports SVN, CVS, GIT, Mercurial and Archive)}

Have you looked into PHP's SVN extension?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.svn.php

Resist the urge to write this yourself and go with a nicely constructed and maintained package like websvn that shows you all your repositories via a web interface, including full revision history on each file and directory within the repository. See a demo here

This will give you all the info on the history of the repository and should best answer your question.

Perhaps you could use a PHP svn library. I found this on google:

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/4270-PHP-Retrieve-files-from-an-SVN-repository-in-pure-PHP.html

FWIW, I'm using svn log and svn cat in PHP without any problems (except for a charset issue). I basically wrap the command in shell_exec.

HTH.