PHP: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Advanced File Handling

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In this lesson, we’ll clear up the remaining aspects of file handling by introducing functions with even greater power to make the manipulation of on-server data even easier (even across servers in different locations). We’ll also look at reading from or writing to just parts of files using random access techniques, where you seek to the part of the file you need and just read or write at that location, as well as how to lock files ...