Read a plain text file with php

You can also produce array by using file:

$array = file('/path/to/text.txt');

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

$array = explode("\n", file_get_contents($filename));

This wont actually read it line by line, but it will get you an array which can be used line by line. There are a number of alternatives.

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

$content = fread($fp, filesize($filename));
$lines = explode("\n", $content);
fclose($fp);
print_r($lines);

In this code full content of the file is copied to the variable $content and then split it into an array with each newline character in the file.

<?php

$fh = fopen('filename.txt','r');
while ($line = fgets($fh)) {
  // <... Do your work with the line ...>
  // echo($line);
}
fclose($fh);
?>

This will give you a line by line read.. read the notes at php.net/fgets regarding the end of line issues with Macs.