Programming
Read a Large File Line by Line With PHP Generators
A generator hands back one line at a time instead of building the whole array, which cut peak memory from 35.3 MB to 2.0…
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Tag: File Handling
Programming
List Files in a Directory With PHP
Inventory a folder with PHP: match a pattern with glob(), read every entry with scandir(), walk sub-folders with RecursiveDirectoryIterator, then sort by size or…
Database Administration
Export MySQL Query Results to a CSV File
SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE turns any query into a spreadsheet file, written by the server itself. Handle the quoting that keeps embedded commas safe,…
Programming
Force a File Download in PHP
Send the Content-Disposition and Content-Type headers that make a browser save a file instead of opening it, then stream the bytes with readfile() —…
Programming
Read A CSV File In PHP
Read a CSV file in PHP with fgetcsv(), which splits each row into an array and keeps quoted fields containing commas intact. Pair it…