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PHP File Handling

  1. About the atomicity of flock in PHP
    When the underlying system supports advisory locking, flock, while not completely atomic, will still be safe for most applications.
  2. Determining the Base Path in PHP
    Determining the Document Root, also known as the Base Path, is important when you want to include files or work with the file system; this solution should be very flexible and broadly compatible.
  3. PHP: Check If A File Was Included
    How to get a list of included files and know if a certain file was included by PHP.
  4. PHP: Include, Require, Include_once, and Require_once
    Tutorial on how to use PHPs include, include_once and require.
  5. How Safe are PHP's File Functions?
    Are the bare file- functions in PHP safe to use?
  6. Recursively Delete Directories
    In this tutorial I show how to create a simple_delete() function in PHP to automatically delete whatever you ask it, and also handle errors.
  7. Create, and Delete Files and Directories
    How to do disk operations, such as creating and deleting files, in PHP.
  8. Rename All Files in a Directory
    I needed a script to quickly rename all files in a directory, so I came up with this elegant PHP solution.