File Handling

Nowadays, PHP programmers generally use databases such as MySQL to do everything, however, every programmer should at least know the basics of reading and writing to files - that IS what a database does. Come read an all you need to know introduction to file handling.

Many of you want to allow user to upload scripts, document or images to your site. Peter explains how enable single and multiple file uploads to your site using PHP, with a bit a file type checking.

It is common to have downloads on your website, and sometimes you want to moderate your downloads by speed, or possibly hide the directory that the download is coming from, protecting all your other files. This article explains how to do this using HTTP headers and file functions.