How do I open a file from line X to line Y in PHP?

Question

The closest I\'ve seen in the PHP docs, is to fread() a given length, but that doesnt specify which line to start from. Any other suggestions?

Answer 1

I was afraid of that... I guess it's plan B then :S

For each AJAX request I'm going to:

1. Read into a string the number of lines I'm going to return to the client.
2. Copy the rest of the file into a temp file.
3. Return string to the client.

It's lame, and it will probably be pretty slow with 10,000+ lines files, but I guess it's better than reading the same over and over again, at least the temp file is getting shorter with every request... No?