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Saving a PHP File as a Word Document
So you are looking for a way to save a PHP page as a word doc programatically? Then you have come to the right place.

Saving Data into Excel the Easy Way
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Creating Dynamic PDF files using HTML and PHP
Some may need to convert some text into HTML and some may need to convert some HTML content to an image format. The main reason for the need to convert from one file format to another is because the target file format is best suited for targeted medium where the content need to be displayed. The targeted medium may be an email, a printed hard copy or a web browser. The text format is best suited for sending emails, as the possibility of the email contents getting corrupted in the transition is much lesser, when compared to the HTML formatted emails. PDF document or a word document would be the best choice for taking a printed hard copy and obviously HTML is best for showing contents in web browsers.

Opening a file in PHP
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Simple Image Resize in GD
Were going to be creating it in a function, so that we can re-use this wherever we need to. This particular function saves the thumbnail file to a directory on the server, you could actually skip saving the file and just print out the image itself if you would prefer to do that.

Installing PHP 4.x for Apache 1.x.x on Linux
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XML and PHP Simplified
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File Uploader
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Writing to a file
In php we use the fwrite function to write data to a file, this takes 2 parameters. The first parameter is the file handle which we specified in our Creating a file tutorial, the second is the actual data we wish to write to the file.

Saving Movie Clip Positions with PHP and MySQL
Good understanding of Flash Actionscript is required to complete this tutorial. What this tutorial basically does is to show you how to set up a table in a mySQL database, then using PHP (or asp with a few minor changes) manipulate that table and interact with Flash.

Secure File Upload with PHP
PHP makes uploading files easy. You can upload any type of file to your Web server. But with ease comes danger and you should be careful when allowing file uploads.In spite of security issues that should be addressed before enabling file uploads, the actual mechanisms to allow this are straight forward. In this tutorial we will consider how to upload files to some directory on your Web server. We will also discuss security issues concerned with the file uploading.

PHP Syntax
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Transforming XML with XSLT and PHP
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File Downloads with Speed Limit
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HTML Templates
Most sites use a standard template throughout the whole website. The header and footer data is stored in a .php file and loaded for each page allowing easy maintenance. This tutorial will show you how to get PHP to dynamically choose which file to include based upon the page currently being viewed.

Creating files with PHP
To create a file in PHP you use the fopen function, this is the same function that is used to open files but if it does not find the file specified it will create a brand new file for you.

PHP Messagebox
Easily create a PHP Message Box, without using any mysql! Using this method, when your visitors post something, the simple script interprets it, and stores the message in a text document. It is also fully customizable with HTML.

PHP File operations
Using files in php is very simple, here i will teach you very basic file operations.

PHP Script Tips - Uploading Files to Web Servers
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PHP Script Tips - Reading and Writing Files
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PHP file uploader
Want to make a simple PHP file uploader for your site? Here it is!

File Upload
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Sneak past the PHP upload limits
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Introduction to SQLite
Many people have heard of SQLite but not many people have used it in their PHP applications. Most PHP applications make use of the MySQL database engine to store information however this is not always needed for small amounts of data. In these cases, web applications often store their data in a "flat file" format, often just a plain text file or an XML file. Both of these methods have their downsides.

Saving Sessions in a File
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PHP/MySQL RSS Feed
Setup your own RSS feed that pulls data from your PHP/MySQL-driven web site. Use PHP to create the XML/RSS document RSS Readers require to inform visitors of your web site database's content updates.

Understand Sessions
Understand Session is important to improve you Php knowledge. When in you php you decide that you want to start a session (we'll see it soon) Php will create a unique identifier and an associated file that will be stored on the server.

PHP Form Image Upload
This tutorial shows you how to upload an image on your server using PHP and html forms. You will also learn how to verify if the uploaded file is an image (checking the extension), if it doesn't overtakes a size limit and how to change the uploaded file name.

PHP Layouts
Make your Website layouts with PHP so you have on layout file so you only need to edit one file to change the layout.

Banner Rotation Using PHP
Creating a simple ad-rotator, the ads are stored in a text file and picked randomly by this PHP code. Most of the webmaster use banner ads, we will be creating a very simple banner rotator, which picks up randomly one ad from the banner file and displays it, this file can be called in any other page to display the banners.

PHP File Handling
We can use PHP to open files and manipulate the data contained within them.

Reading Files in PHP
In this section we are going to cover how to open and read file content in PHP.

Working with Directories and Files
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PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Managing Sessions
A collection of 19 tips on understanding and using sessions in PHP. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on starting and closing sessions, saving and retrieving values in sessions, deciding how session IDs to be transferred, deciding where to store session files, deciding when to expire session values, etc.

Upload single file
Simple PHP uploading file scripts.

PHP File System
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Saving a PHP File as a Word Document

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