Working with Files. How do I use file handles?
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3 min readJul 1, 2023
To use the file functions we saw in the previous solution, you simply need to point them at the file they have to read, using a path that’s relative to the PHP script that executes the function. However, the majority of PHP’s file functions use a slightly different mechanism to access a file — a mechanism that’s very similar to that used to connect to a database. The process uses the fopen function to…