In the previous article "php file operation - reading files character by character" we introduced a method of reading files: reading files character by character. In this article, we will show you another way to read files: read the file line by line. Let's see how to read the file content line by line and output it. Let's learn together.

There is a text file named "test.txt", the contents of which are:

How do we read the contents of the file line by line and Output? Simple, today we will introduce two methods to you.

Method 1: Using the fgets() function

Let’s take a look at the code example:

"; } fclose($handle); //关闭文件 ?>

Output result:

Key function analysis:

fgets() function is used to read a line of data from an open file and accepts a required parameter$file(the file being opened) and an optional parameter$length(the number of bytes to be read); if the$lengthparameter is omitted, the default is to read Take 1k (i.e. 1024 bytes) length.

fgets() function encountersnewline character,EOF(read to the end of the file) or reaches the specified length$length-1Stop (the maximum length of the returned string is$length-1bytes).

If we don't know how much data is in the file, we can use thefilesize()function to get it, which can return the size of the specified file (number of bytes).

So the above code example can be modified:

"; } fclose($handle); //关闭文件 ?>

The output result is the same as above.

Method 2: Using the fgetss() function

Let’s take a look at the code example:

"; } fclose($handle); //关闭文件 ?>

Output result:

Key function analysis:

The fgetss() function is similar to the fgets() function. Both can read a line of data from the open file. The difference is fgetss() The function filters out HTML and PHP tags from the data.

fgetss() function accepts one required parameter$file, two optional parameters$lengthand$tags. The parameters $file and $length are introduced in the fgets() function. You can learn more about them above. The parameter$tagsis used to specify which tags are not to be removed. Let’s learn more about it through an example:

,"))) { //循环读取文件内容 echo $char."
"; } fclose($handle); //关闭文件 ?>