PHP Read File

PHP provides various functions to read data from file. There are different functions that allow you to read all file data, read data line by line and read data character by character.

The available PHP file read functions are given below.

• fread()
• fgets()
• fgetc()

PHP Read File - fread()

The PHP fread() function is used to read data of the file. It requires two arguments: file resource and file size.

Syntax

string fread (resource $handle , int $length )

$handle represents file pointer that is created by fopen() function.

$length represents length of byte to be read.

Example

<?php $filename = "c:\\file1.txt"; $fp = fopen($filename, "r");//open file in read mode $contents = fread($fp, filesize($filename));//read file echo "<div class='rn-code'><pre class='prettyprint'>$contents</pre></div>";//printing data of file fclose($fp);//close file ?>

Output

this is first line
this is another line
this is third line

PHP Read File - fgets()

The PHP fgets() function is used to read single line from the file.

Syntax

string fgets ( resource $handle [, int $length ] )

Example

<?php $fp = fopen("c:\\file1.txt", "r");//open file in read mode echo fgets($fp); fclose($fp); ?>

Output

this is first line

PHP Read File - fgetc()

The PHP fgetc() function is used to read single character from the file. To get all data using fgetc() function, use !feof() function inside the while loop.

Syntax

string fgetc ( resource $handle )

Example

<?php $fp = fopen("c:\\file1.txt", "r");//open file in read mode while(!feof($fp)) { echo fgetc($fp); } fclose($fp); ?>

Output

this is first line this is another line this is third line

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