Reading the plain text from PDF with PHP

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created for the document exchange.

Reading the "clean" text from DOCX and ODT

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.

Reading the "clean" text from RTF

Rich Text Format (often abbreviated as RTF), to surprise of many, is quite complex text data format. During its long history RTF bought a lot of add-ons that disturb the process of getting "clean" text.

PHP Upload single file

Simple PHP uploading file scripts.

PHP Multiple files upload

You can upload multiple files with one time submittion. Array is a big role in this tutorial, let's see the scripts.

PHP Limit upload file size

This upload form can limit file size.

Upload and Rename File

In this tutorial show you how to rename file when upload file to server to prevent new file overwrite an old file that exists in you server.

PHP File Upload Tutorial

This tutorial will demonstrate how to handle file uploads in PHP. We will 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.

Reading and Writing Files

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.

Uploading a file and changing the name

Uploading a file in PHP is very easy. With the help of just few commands you will be able to create an application for uploading files. In this tutorial we will not just learn how to upload the file but also how to change the name of uploaded file using a simple date/time feature of php.

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.