PHP file processing in chunks
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Aug 23, 2010
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There comes a time when you too will need to process a large file that you don't want load all at once into memory. Luckily php makes this easy to do.
You open a file just as usual, $f = fopen('path_to_file','r');
You can then loop through it a little bit at a time, reading in chunks.
while ( ! feof($f) ) {
$chunk = fread($f,1024);
}
If you need to process a text file in lines instead of just chunks by byte size, you can use a different function but in the same way.
while ( ! feof($f) ) {
$line = fgets($f);
}
It's as easy as that ( don't forget to close your file handle, fclose($f); )
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