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This script will help you for the baics of uploading images or files to your server using a HTML form and the PHP function copy. We haven't explained form validation or file checking - We'll go into further detail on that in future tutorials. To kick things off, you'll need a HTML form.

Nowadays, PHP programmers generally use databases such as MySQL to do everything, however, every programmer should at least know the basics of reading and writing to files - that IS what a database does. Come read an all you need to know introduction to file handling.

This article focuses on the document that can be generated using PHP namely Rich Text Format (RTF). Rich Text Format (RTF) is a file type used to transfer formatted text documents between applications, even those that run on different platforms, such as IBM and Macintosh. RTF is a file format that many word processing programs understand; it is often used when a document is created in one word processing program but is expected to be edited in another word processing program.

An example of command line non-interactive PHP script which creates bucket and uploads file to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). Additional libraries like HMAC-SHA1 are not required.

It is common to have downloads on your website, and sometimes you want to moderate your downloads by speed, or possibly hide the directory that the download is coming from, protecting all your other files. This is very possible and very simple to solve in PHP. All you need is the header() function and some files function.

A collection of 12 tips on uploading files with PHP pages. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on creating file upload HTML tags, setting encoding type on HTML forms, getting uploaded file information, storing uploaded file in database.

This is the simple example to list contents of any Directory. To do this we are going to define function DirDisply( ) which will read the current directory contents and display it as a list. We first open current directory by $TrackDir=opendir("."); The opendir function returns a directory handle resource on success, or FALSE on failure. Syntax is: opendir ( string path [, resource context] ) Where: Path - The directory path that is to be opened Context - For a description of the context parameter, refer to the streams section of the php manual.

This tutorial shows you how to upload an image on your server using PHP and html forms. You will also learn how to verify if the uploaded file is an image (checking the extension), if it doesn't overtakes a size limit and how to change the uploaded file name.

This tutorial/code shows how to read and handle files using PHP. Also explains built-in error protection.

Learn how to perform simple task with files: open, read and write. Check the different commands you may use. Learn to use compressed files (.gz) to save time. An example is included to record IPs and referrers of our page.

Asynchronous file uploads is quote popular feature in modern AJAX web-applications. However standard AJAX classes (XmlHttpRequest) does not have capabilities to process or send files selected with "file dialog" (input type="file"). This article contains example application (trivial file-sharing service, like rapidshare, megaupload or yousendit) which uses embedded frames (IFRAME) to upload file. While file is uploaded to hidden frame, user can still access web-page and fill "file description" field.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple file upload system with your user can upload a file from the local computer to your web server. As you will see it is not so complicated to implement this very useful script.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a PHP application to display directory content (filename, file size, modification date) and navigate between them.

An introduction to the PHP include function and example an of how to use this to create a template base for your website.

This tutorial will allow you to have a basic file upload interface with a PHP backend. This tutorial is only for educational purposes and the final PHP file upload script is not robust nor secure enough for a commercial solution.

Learn how to open, retrieve, enter, and change data within an Excel tab-delimited file. It's easier than you think!

This completely free script allows you to backup your complete server. It allows backing-up MySQL databases and files on your server. You can create backups, download them and delete them. It also includes a Cron job script that will make your life easier. You can easily create Cron jobs using this part of the script with no trouble. Free for both personal and for commercial use.

Learn how to upload images easy using forms and PHP. Great for beginners.

In this tutorial I will show you how to divide your code into more files and how to include various files into your actual PHP code.

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?