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.
In the PHP Tutorial You will learn about File manipulation (Part 1) - Checking file existence, A file or directory, Determining file size, Creating and deleting files and Opening a file for writing, reading, or appending.You can test for the existence of a file with the file_exists() function.file_exists() takes one element, which is a string representing an absolute or relative path to a file that might or might not be there.
In this PHP Tutorial you will learn the 2nd Part of File Manipulation Reading lines from a file, Reading arbitrary amounts of data from a file, Writing to a file, Creating directories, Removing a directory and Opening a directory for reading.
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.
This is a brief tutorial for those who are new to php, and dont know much php. Here they will learn how to upload files through php. In the next version there will be alot of great features added. Like Multiple Files Uploading
Using Arrays & Loops
Making new folders/files
Editing Files
etc...
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.
Platform(s): Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Sun Solaris
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?
Platform(s): Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Sun Solaris
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.