Question

I have a data diractory in my server and there is many text file like

text1.txt
abc.txt
def.txt

now i need to read a specific line that contain a specific word like (emp_name) from each file and echo full line in my php project.
how to do this any help appreciated Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

your direction should be like this:

1. firstly open the file , through fopen()
2. then by file_get_contents() or fread() to get the content 
3. then search for the desired word in the file

edit:
do like this:

<?php
$data = file_get_contents("input.txt"); //read the file
if(strpos($data,"str_to_find")==false){ //check if string exists in file
echo "str not found";
}
else 
echo "str found";

?>