Create custom backups from your website using cURL

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.

Directory Listings, list files and subfolder using php

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.

Basic PHP File Handling 1.0

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.

Reading and writing Data from and into files

The following tutorial discusses reading and writing files, and retrieving file information using PHP. PHP comes with a powerful and flexible file manipulation API, which enables developers to view and modify file attributes, read and list directory contents, alter file permissions, retrieve file contents into a variety of native data structures, and search for files based on specific patterns.

Create a zip file from folders on the fly

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.

PHP and compression/archiving, with examples

File compression is slowly becoming the most used programs in computers and servers, because there's so much information to save, backup, transfer, or secure. Everyone knows that compressing files reduces their size on the computer and allows more space for more information. Also, decompression makes files larger sometimes expanding them to whole directories or drives of information. File compression is the mode of software packaging, format for backing up old/archived data etc., But compr

PHP include file tutorial

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.

Opening files with PHP

How to open a file in php using the fopen() function is basic stuff but is quite useful, it can be applied to all sorts of different scripts like making a hit counter, logging visitor or download data perhaps, reading a random line from a file etc.

PHP Includes

PHP include is probally one of the most commonly used PHP functions, it allows you to display the content of a file within another page with just one simple line. There's probally many things you could make use of php includes for, the most common being a template based website where you'll have a number of content pages but only one or two pages with the code for the main layout which is then included into the content pages.

Image upload with MYSQL database

In this tutorial is presented a simple code with informations about programing a script that uses MYSQL database to upload images. Very simple to interpretate, to code and to test, its a simple way to learn how to program a upload script that select images from the MYSQL database using php programing.

Uploading files to Amazon S3 with REST API

Here is an example of command line non-interactive php script which uploads file to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). Additional libraries like HMAC-SHA1 are not required.

Renaming Files within a Directory 1.0.0

Copy and paste the following code into your editor and run it (code comments are included). You can add as many features as you wish from this piece of code. This example browses a directory to list files and rename all files except the ones we do not want to list (as 'Thumbs.db' on windows or '..' and '.' which are not files as well as a directory itself).

Printable Document Generation with PHP 1.0.0

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.

Creating files online in PHP

In this tutorials, we start how to create files using PHP. Before starting test sample script, double check directory access permisisons for writing. First of all, if you're new to PHP but have a knowledge on other scripting languages like ASP, PHP is a comple language which has function to access file system. This means that PHP includes all libraries and functions to manage file system.

Converting Mini File Host into FPS

This script will convert all the file information, with an option to move the files into the new FPS (Free PHP Scripts) Free File Hosting script.

PHP Script Tips - Working with Directoris and Files

A collection of 8 tips on PHP functions for working with file systems: 1. How To Create a Directory? 2. How To Remove an Empty Directory? 3. How To Remove a File? 4. How To Copy a File? 5. How To Dump the Contents of a Directory into an Array? 6. How To Read a Directory One Entry at a Time? 7. How To Get the Directory Name out of a File Path Name? 8. How To Break a File Path Name into Parts?

PHP Script Tips - Uploading Files to Web Servers

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. Topics included in this collections: What Is File Upload? Which HTML Tag Allows Users to Specify a File for Uploading? How To Write the FORM Tag Correctly for Uploading Files? How To Get the Uploaded File Information in the Receiving Scri

Creating Files with PHP

There's no fcreate() function in PHP, so for novice users, it's sometimes hard to figure out how to create a file using PHP. The answer is rather simple. The function fopen() has multiple modes, which determine how the function acts. The modes w, w+, a, a+, x, and x+ will all create the file if it doesn't already exist. Our example will use w+, which opens or creates the file for reading and writing after truncating it.

Create A Directory Indexer, Lists Files And Subdirectories Of A Directory

In this tutorial, we will be making a simple directory lister tool. This is a very neat thing to have if you have directories open to the public that you want to be organized better. I expect for you to have the basic knowledge of PHP for this tutorial. To start off, create a new document. I used the editor Dreamweaver.

Create custom backups from your website using cURL

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.

Directory Listings, list files and subfolder using php

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.

Basic PHP File Handling 1.0

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.

Reading and writing Data from and into files

Create a zip file from folders on the fly

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.

PHP and compression/archiving, with examples

PHP include file tutorial

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.

Opening files with PHP

How to open a file in php using the fopen() function is basic stuff but is quite useful, it can be applied to all sorts of different scripts like making a hit counter, logging visitor or download data perhaps, reading a random line from a file etc.

PHP Includes

Image upload with MYSQL database

More secure PHP image upload class tutorial

In the internet are many php image upload tutorials, but most of them are not so secure. In this tutorial i try to teach you how to write not very complex but secure image upload class.

Uploading files to Amazon S3 with REST API

Here is an example of command line non-interactive php script which uploads file to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). Additional libraries like HMAC-SHA1 are not required.

Renaming Files within a Directory 1.0.0

Printable Document Generation with PHP 1.0.0

Creating files online in PHP

Converting Mini File Host into FPS

This script will convert all the file information, with an option to move the files into the new FPS (Free PHP Scripts) Free File Hosting script.

PHP Script Tips - Working with Directoris and Files

PHP Script Tips - Uploading Files to Web Servers

Creating Files with PHP

Create A Directory Indexer, Lists Files And Subdirectories Of A Directory