Read last five lines of a file and echo them

[rallan]

This code I was iven works but reads it the wrong order.

<?php
       //file command you can open a file, and read its contents into an array.
    $lines = file('file.txt');

// Count this array
    $li=count($lines)-1;
$a=0;
while($a<5)
{
    print $lines[$li-$a]."<br>\r";
    $a++;
            //  don't forget to increment your counter
}
?> 

How would you make the last line in thetext file be echoed last. This echos the last line first then the second last etc.

[laserlight]

You could do something like this:

<?php

//file command you can open a file, and read its contents into an array.
$lines = file('file.txt');

$count = count($lines);
for ($i = ($count < 5) ? 0 : $count - 5; $i < $count; ++$i)
{
    echo $lines[$i] . "<br />\n";
}

?>