fgetcsv

[Anon]

Hi guys!

I am working on a script that is reading a log file created by pppd, I am using the fgetcsv to find the lines I want in the log file. There is no problems when the log file is completely wrote to get the strings I want from that file, but when I am reading it as it is written it won't find the strings I am looking for... here is the part of code that is causing me problems;

$fp = fopen ("log.txt", "r");

while(($data = fgetcsv ($fp, 1000, "\r")) && ($status == 1))
{
$num = count ($data);
for($d=0; $d<$num; $d++)
{
if($data[$d] == $filter2)
{
print $data[$d] . "<br>";
$status = 2;
}

if($data[$d] == $filter3)
{
print $data[$d] . "<br>";
$status = 3;
}
if($data[$d] == $filter4)
{
print $data[$d] . "<br>";
$status = 3;
}
if($data[$d] == $filter5)
{
print $data[$d] . "<br>";
$status = 3;
}
}

}
fclose ($fp);

That is the last part of my application and I can't find why it would not work !?! Help and suggestions would be very appreciated! 🙂

thanks !

J-F

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The problem is that you can't reliably read a file that is being written to at the same time.
You can avoid this by doing two things:

1) You can lock the file for you exclusively, but this is not possible because the PPPD needs to be able to write to the file.

2) You can make a copy of the file and read the copy instead of the original.
This takes more diskspace, but it means you don't have to worry about other processes writing to the file.

[osucreep]

JF,
I was assigned a task to write a similar application. I don't even know where to begin. Would you be interested in sharing your code with me? If so please e-mail [e-mail]. Much apprecaited.
Regards,
Nate