To write all the lines of the file in other words to read the file line by line you can write the code like this:
<?php
$names=file('name.txt');
// To check the number of lines
echo count($names).'<br>';
foreach($names as $name)
{
echo $name.'<br>';
}
?>
this example is so basic to understand how it's working. I hope it will help many beginners.
Regards,
Bingo
file
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
file — Liest eine komplette Datei in ein Array
Beschreibung
file
( string
$filename
, int $flags = 0
, resource $context = ?
) : arrayLiest eine komplette Datei in ein Array
Hinweis:
Sie können file_get_contents() benutzen, um den Inhalt einer Datei als String zurückgeliefert zu bekommen.
Parameter-Liste
-
filename -
Pfad zur Datei.
TippMit dieser Funktion können Sie eine URL als Dateinamen verwenden, falls Sie fopen wrappers aktiviert haben. Mehr Details dazu, wie Sie den Dateinamen angeben müssen, finden Sie bei fopen(). Eine Liste der unterstützten URL-Protokolle, die Fähigkeiten der verschiedenen Wrapper, Hinweise zu deren Verwendung und Informationen zu den eventuell vorhandenen vordefinierten Variablen finden Sie unter Unterstützte Protokolle und Wrapper.
-
flags -
Der optionale Parameter
flagskann aus einer oder mehreren der folgenden Konstanten bestehen:-
FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH - Suche nach der Datei im include_path
-
FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES - Entferne Zeilenende am Ende jedes Array-Elements
-
FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES - Leere Zeilen überspringen
-
-
context -
Eine Context-Ressource, die mit der stream_context_create()-Funktion erstellt wurde.
Hinweis: Die Kontext-Unterstützung gibt es seit PHP 5.0.0. Eine Beschreibung von
Kontextenfinden Sie unter Streams.
Rückgabewerte
Gibt die Datei in einem Array zurück. Jedes Element des Arrays entspricht
einer Zeile in der Datei, ohne dass das Zeilenende entfernt wird. Im
Fehlerfall gibt file() false zurück.
Hinweis:
Jede Zeile in dem resultierenden Array enthält das Zeilenende, außer es wird
FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINESverwendet.
Hinweis: Wenn Sie Probleme damit haben, dass PHP Zeilenendezeichen nicht erkennt, entweder beim Lesen von Dateien auf einem Macintosh oder bei Dateien, die auf einem Macintosh erstellt wurden, können Sie die Option auto_detect_line_endings aktivieren.
Fehler/Exceptions
Erzeugt einen Fehler der Stufe E_WARNING,
wenn die Datei nicht existiert.
Beispiele
Beispiel #1 file()-Beispiel
<?php
// Liest eine Datei in ein Array. Hier gehen wir über HTTP, um den
// HTML-Quelltext einer URL zu bekommen
$lines = file('http://www.example.com/');
// Durchgehen des Arrays und Anzeigen des HTML-Quelltexts inkl. Zeilennummern
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
echo "Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br>\n";
}
// Ein weiteres Beispiel: Einlesen einer Webseite in einen String.
// Siehe auch file_get_contents().
$html = implode ('', file ('http://www.example.com/'));
// Benutzung des optionalen flags-Parameters seit PHP 5
$trimmed = file('somefile.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
?>
Anmerkungen
Warnung
Bei SSL-Verbindungen zusammen
mit Microsoft IIS hält sich dieser Webserver nicht an das Protokoll und
schließt die Verbindung ohne ein close_notify zu senden.
PHP quittiert dieses Fehlverhalten mit "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error", wenn das
Ende der Daten erreicht ist. Eine mögliche Lösung besteht darin, den Level von
error_reporting herabzusetzten und
Warnings auszuschließen. PHP kann fehlerhafte IIS-Serversoftware
erkennen, wenn Sie einen Stream mit dem https://-Wrapper öffnen,
und unterdrückt die Warnung für Sie. Falls Sie fsockopen()
benutzen, um einen ssl://-Socket zu öffnen, müssen Sie selbst
dafür Sorge tragen, die Warnung zu erkennen und diese zu unterdrücken.
Siehe auch
- readfile() - Gibt eine Datei aus
- fopen() - Öffnet eine Datei oder URL
- fsockopen() - Stellt eine Internet- oder Unix-Domain-Socket-Verbindung her
- popen() - Öffnet einen Prozesszeiger
- file_get_contents() - Liest die gesamte Datei in einen String
- include - include
- stream_context_create() - Creates a stream context
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User Contributed Notes 15 notes
bingo at dingo dot com ¶
10 years ago
Martin K. ¶
9 years ago
If the file you are reading is in CSV format do not use file(), use fgetcsv(). file() will split the file by each newline that it finds, even newlines that appear within a field (i.e. within quotations).
d basin ¶
14 years ago
this may be obvious, but it took me a while to figure out what I was doing wrong. So I wanted to share. I have a file on my "c:\" drive. How do I file() it?
Don't forget the backslash is special and you have to "escape" the backslash i.e. "\\":
<?php
$lines = file("C:\\Documents and Settings\\myfile.txt");
foreach($lines as $line)
{
echo($line);
}
?>
hope this helps...
twichi at web dot de ¶
12 years ago
read from CSV data (file) into an array with named keys
... with or without 1st row = header (keys)
(see 4th parameter of function call as true / false)
<?php
// --------------------------------------------------------------
function csv_in_array($url,$delm=";",$encl="\"",$head=false) {
$csvxrow = file($url); // ---- csv rows to array ----
$csvxrow[0] = chop($csvxrow[0]);
$csvxrow[0] = str_replace($encl,'',$csvxrow[0]);
$keydata = explode($delm,$csvxrow[0]);
$keynumb = count($keydata);
if ($head === true) {
$anzdata = count($csvxrow);
$z=0;
for($x=1; $x<$anzdata; $x++) {
$csvxrow[$x] = chop($csvxrow[$x]);
$csvxrow[$x] = str_replace($encl,'',$csvxrow[$x]);
$csv_data[$x] = explode($delm,$csvxrow[$x]);
$i=0;
foreach($keydata as $key) {
$out[$z][$key] = $csv_data[$x][$i];
$i++;
}
$z++;
}
}
else {
$i=0;
foreach($csvxrow as $item) {
$item = chop($item);
$item = str_replace($encl,'',$item);
$csv_data = explode($delm,$item);
for ($y=0; $y<$keynumb; $y++) {
$out[$i][$y] = $csv_data[$y];
}
$i++;
}
}
return $out;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------
?>
fuction call with 4 parameters:
(1) = the file with CSV data (url / string)
(2) = colum delimiter (e.g: ; or | or , ...)
(3) = values enclosed by (e.g: ' or " or ^ or ...)
(4) = with or without 1st row = head (true/false)
<?php
// ----- call ------
$csvdata = csv_in_array( $yourcsvfile, ";", "\"", true );
// -----------------
// ----- view ------
echo "<pre>\r\n";
print_r($csvdata);
echo "</pre>\r\n";
// -----------------
?>
PS: also see: http://php.net/manual/de/function.fgetcsv.php to read CSV data into an array
... and other file-handling methods
^
renanlazarotto at gmail dot com ¶
3 years ago
Be aware that using file() to count lines can cause OOM on the server as it'll allocate all lines into an array.
If you're dealing with files that can have thousands of lines, SplFileObject might be a better idea and with little changes you can get the same result.
radler63 at hotmail dot com ¶
5 years ago
My experience is that the function file does uses the cached content if the file has changed....
sheldon at hyperlinked dot com ¶
4 years ago
As of PHP 5.6 the file(), file_get_contents(), and fopen() functions will return false if you are referencing a source URL that doesn't have a valid SSL certificate. Presumably, you will run into this a lot in your development environments this will drive you crazy.
You will need to create a stream context and provide it as an argument to the various file operations to tell it to ignore invalid SSL credentials.
$args = array("ssl"=>array("verify_peer"=>false,"verify_peer_name"=>false),"http"=>array('timeout' => 60, 'user_agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/3.0.0.1'));
$context = stream_context_create($args);
$httpfile = file($url, false, $context);
lanresmith ¶
6 years ago
Using if ( file(name.txt) ) might not be enough for testing if the file was successfully opened for reading because the file could be empty in which case the array returned is empty, so test instead with !==. e.g.:
$file_array = file('test.txt'); // an empty file
echo '<pre>';
if ( $file_array ) {
# code...
echo "success\n";
} else {
# code...
echo "failure\n"; // executed
}
if ( $file_array !== false ) {
# code...
echo "success\n"; // executed
} else {
# code...
echo "failure\n";
}
echo '</pre>';
result:
failure
success
Anonymous ¶
10 years ago
("file()'s problem with UTF-16" is wrong. This is updated.
The former may miss the last line of the string.)
file() seems to have a problem in handling
UTF-16 with or without BOM.
file() is likely to think "\n"=LF (0A) as a line-ending.
So, not only "000A" but also "010A, 020A,...,FE0A, FF0A,..."
are regarded as line-endings.
Moreover, file() causes a serious problem in UTF-16LE.
file() loses first "0A" (the first half of "0A00")!
And the next line begins with "00" (the rest of "0A00").
So lines after the first "0A" are totally different.
To avoid this phenomena,
eg. in case (php_script : UTF-8 , file : UTF-16 with line-ending "\r\n"),
<?php
mb_regex_encoding('UTF-16'); // to help mb_ereg_..() work properly
$str = file_get_contents($file_path);
$to_encoding = 'UTF-16'; // encoding of string
$from_encoding = 'UTF-8'; // encoding of PHP_script
$pattern1 = mb_convert_encoding('[^\r]*\r\n', $to_encoding, $from_encoding);
mb_ereg_search_init($str, $pattern1);
while ($res = mb_ereg_search_regs()) {
$file[] = $res[0];
}
$pattern2 = mb_convert_encoding('\A.*\r\n(.*)\z', $to_encoding, $from_encoding);
mb_ereg($pattern2, $str, $match);
$file[] = $match[1];
?>
instead of
$file = file($file_path);
If line-ending is "\n",
$pattern1 = mb_convert_encoding('[^\n]*\n', $to_encoding, $from_encoding);
jon+spamcheck at phpsitesolutions dot com ¶
16 years ago
A user suggested using rtrim always, due to the line ending conflict with files that have an EOL that differs from the server EOL.
Using rtrim with it's default character replacement is a bad solution though, as it removes all whitespace in addition to the '\r' and '\n' characters.
A good solution using rtrim follows:
<?php
$line = rtrim($line, "\r\n") . PHP_EOL;
?>
This removes only EOL characters, and replaces with the server's EOL character, thus making preg_* work fine when matching the EOL ($)
marco dot remy at aol dot com ¶
9 years ago
Here's my CSV converter
supports Header and trims all fields
Note: Headers must be not empty!
<?php
function csv2array($file, $delim = ';', $encl = '"', $header = false) {
# File does not exist
if(!file_exists($file))
return false;
# Read lines of file to array
$file_lines = file($file, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
# Empty file
if($file_lines === array())
return NULL;
# Read headers if you want to
if($header === true) {
$line_header = array_shift($file_lines);
$array_header = array_map('trim', str_getcsv($line_header, $delim, $encl));
}
$out = NULL;
# Now line per line (strings)
foreach ($file_lines as $line) {
# Skip empty lines
if(trim($line) === '')
continue;
# Convert line to array
$array_fields = array_map('trim', str_getcsv($line, $delim, $encl));
# If header present, combine header and fields as key => value
if($header === true)
$out[] = array_combine ($array_header, $array_fields);
else
$out[] = $array_fields;
}
return $out;
}
?>
Reversed: moc dot liamg at senroc dot werdna ¶
16 years ago
This note applies to PHP 5.1.6 under Windows (although may apply to other versions).
It appears that the 'FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES' flag doesn't remove newlines properly when reading Windows-style text files, i.e. files whose lines end in '\r\n'.
Solution: Always use 'rtrim()' in preference to 'FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES'.
justin at visunet dot ie ¶
21 years ago
Note: Now that file() is binary safe it is 'much' slower than it used to be. If you are planning to read large files it may be worth your while using fgets() instead of file() For example:
<?php
$fd = fopen ("log_file.txt", "r");
while (!feof ($fd))
{
$buffer = fgets($fd, 4096);
$lines[] = $buffer;
}
fclose ($fd);
?>
The resulting array is $lines.
I did a test on a 200,000 line file. It took seconds with fgets() compared to minutes with file().
vbchris at gmail dot com ¶
16 years ago
If you're getting "failed to open stream: Permission denied" when trying to use either file() or fopen() to access files on another server. Check your host doesn't have any firewall restrictions in-place which prevent outbound connections. This is the case with my host Aplus.net
info at carstanje dot com ¶
17 years ago
Using file() for reading large text files > 10 Mb gives problems, therefore you should use this instead. It is much slower but it works fine. $lines will return an array with all the lines.
<?php
$handle = @fopen('yourfile...', "r");
if ($handle) {
while (!feof($handle)) {
$lines[] = fgets($handle, 4096);
}
fclose($handle);
}
?>
