Grab a text line

[Anon]

I know how to get a group of characters within a text file.

<?
if (!$file=fopen("file.txt", "r")) {
echo ("Could not open file");
} else {
$text = fread($file, 15);
fclose($file);
echo ("$text");
}
?>

But how do I instead of pulling the first 15 characters, pull the first 15 lines instead.
There is no max or minimum character length per line.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Anon]

try:

$my_file = "/path/filename";

load each line of file into an element of an array

$file = file( $my_file );

for( $i = 0; $i < 15; $i++ ) {
$arr[] = $file[$i];
}

$arr now is a 15 element array with the first 15 lines as each element.

hth
stew

[Anon]

There's two ways to get the first 15 lines using the filesystem functions of php. First is to use fgets() 15 times. You can put this in a for loop. Second, you can read the entire file into an array using file() and than manipulate the first fifteen elements as you want to.

[Anon]

Hi! Why don't you count the newlines characters(\n)? This may help you.. or you could something like this:

<?
if (!$file=fopen("file.txt", "r")) {
echo ("Could not open file");
} else {
for($i=0 ; $i<15 ; $i++)
echo fgets($file, 2048);
fclose($file)
}
?>

This code must show you the first 15 lines of a file...

HTH

inK