PHP Tutorials — File Manipulation

Every developer, at one point in time, will run into a situation where they need to display a small amount of dynamic data. Why create a whole database? Enter the magical world of XML. Here you’ll learn how to use PHP and XML to randomly generate HTML content.

This tutorial shows how to manipulate Excel files by PHP. OLE compatible COM object allows to load Excel data directly from XLS file and process it by using its methods and properties.

Online File Storage with PHP

In this tutorial I will teach you how to use SimpleXML to read & parse XML feeds. Before PHP5 reading XML was a mess, this all changes with SimpleXML. You will learn how to parse a standard XML RSS Feed and display it and many other functions.

Uploaders are scripts that give a user the ability to upload a file/image to a certain space defined in the script that runs the uploader, im sure the websites such as Imageshack and Photobucket are familiar to you, and there many services out there, but wouldn’t it be nice to create your own little uploader service? Well in this tutorial you will create a small uploader that is quick, easy and customizable to your liking. Includes a great little feature that generates embed codes for you.

Scanning Folders with PHP

Reading XLS files with PHP-exceLreader is a breeze, I found one pitfall though.

Walk through of a class that manages many common tasks.

An alternative way to using Twitter's JavaScript and Flash approaches.

Load your awstats log file and display the stats with PHP. No more logging in to see your awstats.