How to read a large file line by line?

Question

I want to read a file line by line, but without completely loading it in memory.

My file is too large to open in memory, and if try to do so I always get out of memo

Answer 1

SplFileObject is useful when it comes to dealing with large files.

function parse_file($filename)
{
    try {
        $file = new SplFileObject($filename);
    } catch (LogicException $exception) {
        die('SplFileObject : '.$exception->getMessage());
    }
    while ($file->valid()) {
        $line = $file->fgets();
        //do something with $line
    }

    //don't forget to free the file handle.
    $file = null;
}