Question

Using PHP, Perl, or Python (preferably PHP), I need a way to query an SVN database and find out the last revision number sent to SVN. I don’t need anything other than that. It needs to be non-intensive (so I do it every 5 minutes as a cron job; SVN’s performance should not be affected).

SVN is located on my Intranet, but not my specific computer.

I have SVN installed, but no bindings installed for PHP/Perl/Python. I’m running Windows XP, but I would prefer a platform-independent solution that can also work in Linux. If you have a Linux-only (or XP-only) solution, that would also be helpful.

Answer 1

<?php     $url = 'your repository here';     $output = `svn info $url`;     echo '<pre>$output</pre>'; ?> 

You can get the output in XML like so:

$output = `svn info $url --xml`; 

If there is an error then the output will be directed to stderr. To capture stderr in your output use thusly:

$output = `svn info $url 2>&1`;