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A collection of 14 tips on PHP functions on file input and output. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on opening files for reading and writing, appending data to existing files, reading file by line or character, reading file in binary mode. Special topics are: How To Append New Data to the End of a File? How To Read One Character from a File? How To Read a File in Binary Mode? How To Read Data from Keyborad (Standard Input)? How To Open Standard Output as a File Handle?

We've mostly focused on MySQL-type tutorials, but we'll show you in this tutorial the basics of file handling. This includes opening a directory and listing the files, opening a file and showing it's contents and opening, then modifying a file. Deleting a file too!

Search through files and directories on your server. You can create a compete search tool which would allow you to search through pathnames, file's contents and MySQL databases. It is created as an API, so you can get your results in following formats json, csv, xml, atom, txt, html, stats or print.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to handle file uploads in PHP. The example will show how to create a simple XHTML form with a file field, and a PHP script that handles the form submission by moving the uploaded file to a designated directory.

A guide about how to read the contents of a text file using PHP, using a variety of different built in functions, with tips about how to use them effectively.

Creating files with PHP is quite simple task but you need to be careful during file manipulations. In this lesson I will show you how to do it without headache.

In this article we demonstrate several ways to create Microsoft Word and Excel documents, and also CSV files using PHP. Learn how to create files using HTTP headers, COM objects, OpenOffice templates, fputcsv function.

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created for document exchange. Let's read the plain text from the PDF file.

In this article we will resolve the task of reading the “clean” text from the Rich Text Format (often abbreviated as RTF) using PHP. Note that we are not going to apply any third-party software.

In this article we will resolve the task of reading the “clean” text from the Office Open XML (more known as DOCX) and OpenDocument Format ODT using PHP. Note that we are not going to apply any third-party software.

Empty Directory And delete the templete engines cached files

Protect your downloadable content by storing the files outside your webroot. This is an easy solution to online subscription content protetcion.

Create a backup script and execute the PHP script using a CRON job. This tutorial is for webmasters if the websites control panel has only capabilities to create full site backups and/or where the access via SSH is disabled.

In this tutorial you will learn how to open, read, write, rename, remove and upload files using one of the best server-side languages -- PHP. It will overview the fopen() function and the different modes needed to open files. It will then teach you how to read data from a file and output it. Next you will learn about the fwrite() function and about truncating files. Next you will be taught how to use the rename() and unlink() functions to rename and delete files. Finally you are given an introduction into the world of uploading files.

Uploading files to a remote FTP server is very effective while using the cURL library. This short PHP tutorial will show the user how to upload a file to a password protected FTP server.

Creating zip files on a web server is a feature which could be very useful for backups or just for offering an unknown number of dynamic files or folder inside of a directory. This tutorial shows us how handle that with only a few rows of PHP code!

A brief guide to opening and managing files using PHP's fopen() function.

As is necessary for any language, PHP has a complete set of directory support functions. PHP gives you a variety of functions to read and manipulate directories and directory entries. Like other file-related parts of PHP, the functions are similar to the C functions that accomplish the same tasks, with some simplifications. This tutorial describes how PHP handles directories. You will look at how to create, remove, and read them.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a file on your web server using your browser. We will create a html form which will be store the file during the form processing mechanism.

A collection of 8 tutorials on working with directories and files: How To Create a Directory? How To Remove an Empty Directory? How To Remove a File? How To Copy a File? How To Dump the Contents of a Directory into an Array? How To Read a Directory One Entry at a Time? How To Get the Directory Name out of a File Path Name? How To Break a File Path Name into Parts?