Can I read a .TXT file with PHP?

Question

As I start the process of writing my site in PHP and MySQL, one of the first PHP scripts I\'ve written is a script to initialize my database. Drop/create the database. Dro

Answer 1

You want to read line by line? Use fgets.

$handle = @fopen("myfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (($content = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
        //echo $content;
    }
    if (!feof($handle)) {
        echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
    }
    fclose($handle);
}