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a rather lenghty solution for reading a file into an array

copy the code of file handling / line by line

<?php

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|                             PHParadise source code
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| file:             line by line
| category:         file handling
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| last modified:    Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:40:38 GMT
| downloaded:       Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:04:13 GMT as copy from textarea
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| code URL:
| http://phparadise.de/php-code/file-handling/line-by-line/
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| description:
| a rather lenghty solution for reading a file into an array
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

file('path/to/file.txt');
  
?>
  
but well, here you go ...

<?php
 
// GetLine
// Obtain the next line in a given file by reading each character until a \r or \n is reached.
 
// @param    file    a handle returned from fopen for our file.
// @return    string    the next line in the file.
 
function getLine($file)
{

// iterate over each character in line.
   while (!feof($file))
   {

// append the character to the buffer.
       $character = fgetc($file);
       $buffer .= $character;
   
       // check for end of line.
       if (($character == "\n") or ($character == "\r"))
       {

// checks if the next character is part of the line ending, as in
           // the case of windows '\r\n' files, or not as in the case of 
           // mac classic '\r', and unix/os x '\n' files.
           $character = fgetc($file);
           if ($character == "\n")
           {
           
               // part of line ending, append to buffer.
               $buffer .= $character;
           
           } else {
           
               // not part of line ending, roll back file pointer.
               fseek($file, -1, SEEK_CUR);
           }
       
           // end of line, so stop reading.
           break;
       }
   }
   // return the line buffer.
   return $buffer;
}

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