Reading specific line of a file in PHP

Question

I am working on reading a file in php. I need to read specific lines of the file.

I used this code:

fseek($file_handle,$start);
while (!feof($file_ha         


        

Answer 1

Does this work for you?

$file = "name-of-my-file.txt";
$lines = file( $file ); 
echo $lines[67]; // echos line 68 (lines numbers start at 0 (replace 68 with whatever))

You would obviously need to check the lines exists before printing though. Any good?

Answer 2

You could do like:

$lines = file($filename); //file in to an array
echo $lines[1];           //line 2

OR

$line = 0;
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');

while (($buffer = fgets($fh)) !== FALSE) {
   if ($line == 1) {
       // $buffer is the second line.
       break;
   }   
   $line++;
}

Answer 3

You could use function file($filename) . This function reads data from the file into array.

Answer 4

Use SplFileObject::seek

$file = new SplFileObject('yourfile.txt');
$file->seek(123); // seek to line 124 (0-based)

Answer 5

Try this,the simplest one

$buffer=explode("\n",file_get_contents("filename"));//Split data to array for each "\n"

Now the buffer is an array and each array index contain each lines; To get the 5th line

echo $buffer[4];

Answer 6

You must read from the beginning. But if the file never/rarely changes, you could cache the line offsets somewhere else, perhaps in another file.