Another way to read a file into an array

[iceblox]

Hi Guys,

 

I have a script which opens a file using file() then it reads this information from an array.

 

Is there another way i can achieve this without using file()?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Phil

[monkeytooth]

depends on the file type your opening and reading from.. then depends from there what your doing with what type of file.

[khr2003]

have tried other functions like: fileread, get_file_contents or curl?

[.josh]

my guess is if file() isn't an option for you, chances are the other functions available aren't going to be either. Unless you are wanting to read/process the file a different way than how file() does it?

[iceblox]

Its quite a lengthy script which works however when the file is large the server runs out of memory and its running on max memory!

 

I had some code which basically reads and replaces 12500 lines then starts at 12501 til 25000. If this makes sense?

 

I believe file opens the whole file and i think thats what the problem is..  So what i was hoping to find was a func that would alllow this to work without re writing the whole script?

 

Thanks again Phil

[.josh]

you can use fopen and fread to read it one line at a time.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

reads and replaces 12500 lines ... If this makes sense?

No, that does not make 'computer' sense. After you have a few thousand lines of data, you should migrate it to a database and let the database engine do the work for you.

[Daniel0]

reads and replaces 12500 lines ... If this makes sense?

No, that does not make 'computer' sense. After you have a few thousand lines of data, you should migrate it to a database and let the database engine do the work for you.

 

That might not be applicable. What if he is writing a script to analyze Apache access logs for instance? What if he is writing the script that is migrating to a DBMS?

 

Check this out:

[daniel@phpfreaks logs]$ wc -l access.log.2009-09-25
681486 access.log.2009-09-25