File Handling with PHP Course (How To)

PHP can do so much more than include files. In this course we'll explore reading and writing files from a directory. We'll also take advantage of built-in parsing functions for working with common file formats to read and write CSV, XML and JSON data.

What you'll learn

• Reading and Writing Files
• Input/Output (I/O)
• CSV
• XML
• JSON

Basic File Handling

We will explore different ways of interacting with data files. You'll learn different methods and use cases for reading and writing files in a directory.

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• Directory and File Structures

  6:18

• Including and Opening files

  6:24

• Reading Files Into a String or Array

  3:55

• Reading Files

  3 objectives

• Writing Files Line by Line

  5:25

• Writing Files All at Once

  5:05

• Review Basic File Handling

  5 questions

Parsing Specific Formats

In this section, we will take advantage of the built-in functions that PHP offers for parsing common data types. We will read and write CSV, XML and JSON data to create a personal recommendations application.

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• Personal Recommendations Project

  1:38

• Reading CSV

  7:40

• Writing CSV

  6:04

• Review CSV

  5 questions

• Reading JSON

  6:25

• Writing JSON

  7:52

• Review JSON

  7 questions

• Reading XML

  8:21

• Writing XML

  9:29

• Review XML

  6 questions

• Conclusion

  0:50