PHP: How to read a file live that is constantly being written to

Question

I want to read a log file that is constantly being written to. It resides on the same server as the application. The catch is the file gets written to every few seconds, and

Answer 1

For example :

$log_file = '/tmp/test/log_file.log';

$f = fopen($log_file, 'a+');
$fr = fopen($log_file, 'r' );

for ( $i = 1; $i < 10; $i++ )
{
    fprintf($f, "Line: %u\n", $i);
    sleep(2);
    echo fread($fr, 1024) . "\n";
}

fclose($fr);
fclose($f);

//Or if you want use tail

$f = fopen($log_file, 'a+');

for ( $i = 1; $i < 10; $i++ )
{
    fprintf($f, "Line: %u\n", $i);
    sleep(2);
    $result = array();
    exec( 'tail -n 1 ' . $log_file, $result );
    echo "\n".$result[0];
}

fclose($f);