Last 5 lines of a text file...

[Anon]

Hello,

I have a text file that has searches logged to it and the number of results that are returned. How would I go about getting the last 5 or so lines in an array so I can display them on a page...?

Thanks in advance,

Tony.

[ruppelm]

Hi,

try something like this:

<?php

// Read all lines in an array.
$all_lines = file('logfile.txt');

// This is the array which will contain the result.
$last_lines = array_slice($all_lines, -5, 5);

?>

Cheers, Markus

[mrjam]

also, you could change the logging feature to write new lines at the top of the file, then when retrieving them, you just read the first 5...

// Thomasson