Read a plain text file with php

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I have a text file with this information in my server   Data1 Data2 Data3       DataN   How do I read all the information from the text file  line by line  using PHP

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You can read a group of txt files in a folder and echo the contents like this      lt  php  directory    folder     dir   opendir  directory    filenames       while    file   readdir  dir       false     filename    directory    file   type   filetype  filename   if  type      file   continue   filenames      filename    closedir  dir     gt

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your variable   file get contents  quot file to read txt quot

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lt  php   fh   fopen  filename txt   r    while   line   fgets  fh           lt     Do your work with the line     gt       echo  line     fclose  fh     gt    This will give you a line by line read   read the notes at php net fgets regarding the end of line issues with Macs

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You can also produce array by using file    array   file   path to text txt

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http   php net manual en function file-get-contents php  http   php net manual en function explode php   array   explode   n   file get contents  filename     This wont actually read it line by line  but it will get you an array which can be used line by line   There are a number of alternatives

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aa   fopen  a txt   r    echo fread  aa filesize  a txt       a   fopen  a txt   r    while  feof  a   echo fgets  a    lt br gt     fclose  a

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filename    fille txt    fp   fopen  filename   r      content   fread  fp  filesize  filename     lines   explode   n    content   fclose  fp   print r  lines     In this code full content of the file is copied to the variable  content and then split it into an array with each newline character in the file

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Try something like this    filename    file txt     data   file  filename   foreach   data as  line num  gt  line        echo  Line    lt b gt    line num   lt  b gt     line   lt br  gt

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W3Schools is your friend  http   www w3schools com php func filesystem fgets asp  And here  http   php net manual en function fopen php has more info on fopen including what the modes are   What W3Schools says    lt  php  file   fopen  test txt   r     while   feof  file         echo fgets  file     lt br   gt         fclose  file     gt     fopen opens the file  in this case test txt with mode  r  which means read-only and places the pointer at the beginning of the file   The while loop tests to check if it s at the end of file  feof  and while it isn t it calls fgets which gets the current line where the pointer is   Continues doing this until it is the end of file  and then closes the file

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file    doc txt    doc file get contents  file     line explode   n   doc   foreach  line as  newline       echo   lt h3 style  color  453288  gt    newline   lt  h3 gt  lt br gt

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