php read large text file log

Question

I have a text log file, about 600 MB.

I want to read it using php and display the data on a html page, but I only need the last 18 lines that were added each time I

Answer 1

Loading that size file into memory would probably not be a good idea. This should get you around that.

$file = escapeshellarg($file);
$line = 'tail -n 18 '.$file;
system($line);