Php file directory management

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Examples might be simplified to improve reading and learning. Tutorials, references, and examples are constantly reviewed to avoid errors, but we cannot warrant full correctness of all content. While using W3Schools, you agree to have read and accepted our terms of use , cookie and privacy policy. Copyright by Refsnes Data. All Rights Reserved. Specifically, we often find ourselves needing to copy files, rename files, remove files, and open and close files.

We often need to perform certain logic based on certain characteristics of files and directories. It'd be difficult to seriously consider a language as a scripting language without decent file system support.

Fortunately, PHP has built-in support for file system management. This support can be used in conjunction with command line PHP. The page reminds us that the PHP filesystem functions "are part of the PHP core" and "allow you to access and manipulate the filesystem. Clicking on a function name leads to a page with more details on that function as well as a PHP code example using that function.

Because I'll only cover a subset of these in this post, I wanted to make sure to reference this W3Schools page early. The following script, demoPhpFileSystemManagement. I list the whole script here and then reproduce portions of the script again as I discuss them.

Before going into more detailed coverage of the PHP file system functions used in the above example, I have observed my Java background in that PHP code.