Chapter

Opening Files

From ComputerScienceOne by Dr Chris Bourke

Concepts

1. How does PHP handle file input and output?

   "Because of the history of PHP, file functions, just like string functions, were mostly influenced by the C standard library functions and have very similar naming and usage. Writing binary or plainte

2. How do you open and validate files in PHP?

   "Files are represented in PHP as a “resource” (also referred to as a handle) that can be passed around to other functions to read and write to the file. For our purposes, a resource is simply a variab