In spite of security issues that should be addressed before enabling file uploads, the actual mechanisms to allow this are straight forward. In this tutorial we will consider how to upload files to some directory on your Web server. We will also discuss security issues concerned with the file uploading.
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.
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.
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.
Reading the Contents of a Directory
Deleting the Directory and Its Contents
Creating New Directories
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