File Manipulation

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.

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 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.

Reading from file is a general task in PHP. This article tries to summarize how to use PHP file read possibilities.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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