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SplFileObject::fgets

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

SplFileObject::fgetsGets line from file

Description

public SplFileObject::fgets(): string

Gets a line from the file.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns a string containing the next line from the file.

Errors/Exceptions

Throws a RuntimeException if the file cannot be read.

Examples

Example #1 SplFileObject::fgets() example

This example simply outputs the contents of file.txt line-by-line.

<?php
$file
= new SplFileObject("file.txt");
while (!
$file->eof()) {
echo
$file->fgets();
}
?>

See Also

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User Contributed Notes 3 notes

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Lucas Bustamante
3 years ago
Notice that the behavior of fgets after a seek changed on PHP 8.0.10, if you seek to line 50 and run fgets, it will give you line 50, while on PHP 5.1~8.0.0 it would give you line 51:

<?php

$file
= new SplTempFileObject();

for (
$i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
$file->fwrite("Foo $i\n");
}

$file->seek(50);

echo
json_encode(array(
array(
'line' => $file->key(), 'contents' => trim($file->fgets())),
array(
'line' => $file->key(), 'contents' => trim($file->fgets())),
array(
'line' => $file->key(), 'contents' => trim($file->fgets())),
),
JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

?>

Results:

PHP 8.0.1+
[
{
"line": 50,
"contents": "Foo 50"
},
{
"line": 50,
"contents": "Foo 51"
},
{
"line": 51,
"contents": "Foo 52"
}
]

PHP 5.1 to 8.0.0
[
{
"line": 50,
"contents": "Foo 51"
},
{
"line": 51,
"contents": "Foo 52"
},
{
"line": 52,
"contents": "Foo 53"
}
]
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5
Chris Johnson
6 years ago
Note that this method will cause a PHP fatal error if the file being read contains no recognizable line termination characters and is larger than the allowable memory size for PHP to allocate, i.e. memory_limit set in php.ini or similar. In other words, PHP keeps reading until it finds a line termination, if it runs out of memory first, it will throw a fatal error.

This is different from the file resource fread() function, which allows an optional maximum length argument to be passed to limit this behavior.
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Lucas Bustamante
3 years ago
I forgot to mention in my previous note about PHP PHP 8.0.10, that you can use $file->current(); $file->next(); as a replacement for $file->fgets(); that works consistently from PHP 5.1 to 8.0.1+ after a seek():

<?php

$file
= new SplTempFileObject();

for (
$i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
$file->fwrite("Foo $i\n");
}

$file->seek(50);

print_r(array(
array(
'line' => $file->key(), 'contents' => trim($file->current()), 'triggerNext' => $file->next()),
array(
'line' => $file->key(), 'contents' => trim($file->current()), 'triggerNext' => $file->next()),
array(
'line' => $file->key(), 'contents' => trim($file->current()), 'triggerNext' => $file->next()),
));

?>

PHP 5.1 to 8.0.1+:

[
{
"line": 50,
"contents": "Foo 50"
},
{
"line": 51,
"contents": "Foo 51"
},
{
"line": 52,
"contents": "Foo 52"
}
]
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