Kohana is just an excellent framework to work with, but one of my beefs is that the structure of its bundled libraries and helpers is a little haphazard, missing basic functions you'd expect to find in the core (so you can rely on them when writing modules) omitted!

For this reason, here's my attempt at a more integrated helper class. It's somewhat of a Frankenstein's monster with bits borrowed from Code Igniter, and my own code thrown in as well. Apart from this, it:

• Adds a few new methods
• Improves on some existing methods
• Combines the 'download' helper functionality
• Tidies up various method calls

The methods are:

• map()
• get_folders()
• get_files()
• delete_files()
• read_file()
• write_file()
• make_path()
• download()

Download filesystem.php here.

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