How can virtual linking be used to access files on a different drive from a PHP website?

To access files on a different drive from a PHP website, you can use virtual linking by creating symbolic links to the files on the different drive within your web server's document root. This allows PHP to access the files as if they were located locally on the same drive as the website files.

// Create a symbolic link to the files on a different drive
symlink('/path/to/different/drive/files', '/path/to/website/files/different_drive_files');

// Access the files on the different drive using the symbolic link
$file = file_get_contents('/path/to/website/files/different_drive_files/example.txt');
echo $file;