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Create custom backups from your website using cURL

Create a backup script and execute the PHP script using a CRON job. 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.

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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. We first open current directory by $TrackDir=opendir(...

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  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX
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Basic PHP File Handling

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 modif...

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  • Windows,
  • Mac OSX
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Reading and writing Data from and into files

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.

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  • Linux
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Introduction to Files

In this tutorial you will learn how to open, read, write, rename, remove and upload files using one of the best server-side languages -- PHP. It will overview the fopen() function and the different modes needed to open files. It will then teach you h...

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  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
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FTP Upload via cURL

Uploading files to a remote FTP server is very effective while using the cURL library. This short PHP tutorial will show the user how to upload a file to a password protected FTP server.

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  • Linux,
  • Windows
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Tutorial: 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. This tutorial shows us how handle that with only a few rows of PHP code!

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  • Linux
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  • Freeware

PHP && File Compression/Archiving techniques

PHP has some very easy, simple yet powerful, extensions for file compression support. zip, gZip, bZip2, LZF libraries are popular extensions with php. Each one is actually a different compression format... all of them have their own algorithms to com...

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  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD
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  • Freeware

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.

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  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
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Opening files with PHP

A brief guide to opening and managing files using PHP''s fopen() function.

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  • Linux
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