lixlpixel php code snippets | file handling


a rather lenghty solution for

   

   <?php

   

   file('path/to/file.txt');

   

   ?>

   

 but well, here you go ...

 

   <?php

     

    // GetLine

    // Obtain the next line in a given file by reading each character until a \r or \n is reached.

     

    // @param    file    a handle returned from fopen for our file.

    // @return    string    the next line in the file.

     

     function getLine($file)

     {

     

        // iterate over each character in line.

        while (!feof($file))

        {    

     

            // append the character to the buffer.

            $character = fgetc($file);

            $buffer .= $character;

        

            // check for end of line.

            if (($character == "\n") or ($character == "\r"))

            {

     

                // checks if the next character is part of the line ending, as in

                // the case of windows '\r\n' files, or not as in the case of 

                // mac classic '\r', and unix/os x '\n' files.

                $character = fgetc($file);

                if ($character == "\n")

                {

                

                    // part of line ending, append to buffer.

                    $buffer .= $character;

                

                } else {

                

                    // not part of line ending, roll back file pointer.

                    fseek($file, -1, SEEK_CUR);

                }

            

                // end of line, so stop reading.

                break;

            }

        }

        // return the line buffer.

        return $buffer;

     }

     

     ?>