Question

I want to read everything from a textfile and echo it. But there might be more lines written to the text-file while I’m reading so I don’t want the script to exit when it has reached the end of the file, instead I wan’t it to wait forever for more lines. Is this possible in php?

Answer 1

I solved it.

The trick was to use fopen and when eof is reached move the cursor to the previous position and continue reading from there.

<?php
$handle = fopen('text.txt', 'r');
$lastpos = 0;
while(true){
   if (!feof($handle)){
       echo fread($handle,8192);
       flush();
       $lastpos = ftell($handle);
   }else{
       fseek($handle,$lastpos);
   }
}
?>

Still consumes pretty much cpu though, don’t know how to solve that.