File Manipulation

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

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.

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.

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.

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 PHP application to display directory content (filename, file size, modification date) and navigate between 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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 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.

This tutorial tell you how to create a file upload script on your server using php, javascript. The code is available for free.

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

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.

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.

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