26145PHP - File Upload: HTML Formhttp://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.phpBefore you can use PHP to manage your uploads, you must first build an HTML form that lets users select a file to upload. See our HTML Form lesson for a more in-depth look at forms.PHP > Tips and Tutorials > File ManipulationOct 15, 2006Tizag.com
Databases really are wonderful pieces of software, they allow us to organize our content logically and allow easy access, updating and searching. However, sometimes a database is overkill and is not needed for the task. For example, what if you had a list of sayings or quotes, and you would like to display a random one each time the page loads. This could easily be represented in a database; however, it is equally as easy to do it using flat files
This article contains:
1. Introduction to compression with PHP.. extending PHP with extensions.
2. Using ZIP
3. Using gZip
4. Using bZip2 and LZF
5. Using 'File_Archive' PEAR package
In the previous version of this tutorial I only covered how to paginate a flat file based application. In this updated version, I will discuss some improvements along with pagination for database content as well (specifically, MySQL). I will also cover how to retain any pre-existing query string variables that your application might be using without interfering with our pagination.
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.
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!
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