Category: File Handling

What is File Reading? Working with online applications frequently needs reading data from files. PHP makes it easy to read files from your server. File reading is the process of opening a file and extracting its data for usage in your program. For example, you may want to read a text file that contains user…

When working with PHP, you will need to read and write files. This chapter explains how to open a file in PHP. This is a important skill for any web developer who want to manage data properly. PHP’s built-in function library provides fopen() function to open a file or any other stream and returns its…

In PHP, a file is a resource object, from which data can be read or written to in a linear fashion. The term “file handling” refers to a set of functions in PHP that enable read/write operations on disk files with PHP code. A file object is classified as a stream. Any resource on which linear…