Chapter 3: PHP and Your Operating System
In This Chapter
Manipulating files
Using operating system commands on files
Transferring files from one machine to another
Reading and writing files
Swapping data with other programs
Using SQLite to store data in text files
This book describes using tools like HTML, PHP, MySQL, and CSS together to develop dynamic web applications. The HTML and CSS provide the presentation and markup of pages, while PHP displays web pages and interacts with MySQL to retrieve and store data for the application. For most web applications, PHP needs to interact only with MySQL. However, a few situations require a web application that’s more complex. The web application might need to interact with the operating system or with other software on your system.
A photo gallery is one web application that might need to interact with your operating system. Your photo gallery ...
