Show a txt file on a webpage which updates every second

Question

I\'m sort of shooting in the dark here; I have no knowledge how to do this so some pointers and/or links to helpful tutorials would be great:

I have a website that I

Answer 1

There are various ways of doing this...

You could look into long polling.

Stick a meta refresh tag to refresh the page every X seconds.

tail -f /path/to/log.log in terminal will open a live preview of the last few lines of that file - this is what I do if I need to read the error logs as I debug.

Or simply refresh the page manually as you go, it might be annoying having the page change it's contents automatically.

As you have said your file is very large, I would use the PHP file() function to just grab the first X amount of lines from a file to keep bandwith down and readability up!