24.05 Mac in the Shell: File Manipulation with PHP

by Edward Marczak
May, 2008 Issue

Article Synopsis

We've been talking about PHP as a general scripting language, and how nice it is that it's standard issue on OS X. This makes life as a sysadmin a lot easier when rolling out scripts across many machines, even when they're a mix of, say, 10.3, 10.5, and even Linux and FreeBSD! Topics so far have covered the general language and database access. This month, we'll visit file manipulation and talk about ways to keep growing scripts manageable.

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