PHP and MySQL® Web Development, Fourth Edition

19 Interacting with the File System and the Server

IN CHAPTER 2,“STORING AND RETRIEVING DATA,” you saw how to read data from and write data to files on the web server. This chapter covers other PHP functions that enable you to interact with the file system on the web server.

Key topics covered in this chapter include

  Uploading files with PHP

  Using directory functions

  Interacting with files on the server

  Executing programs on the server

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