Question

If I have a text file formatted as such:

00:00:00 Text 1
00:00:01 Text 2
00:00:02 Text 3
00:00:03 Text 4
00:00:04 Text 5
00:00:05 Text 6

How would I create a PHP function to get all text after a specific time starting from the next line?

Example: Time 00:00:03 specified, fetch all lines from 00:00:04.

Answer 1

Checkout the PHP functions:

• fgets
• substr

Essentially you will want to follow a process like:

1. Open file pointer to the file containing the text
2. Use fgets to pull a line at a time
3. Use substr to get the time, check if it matches
4. If doesn’t match continue; if it does match set a flag and continue;
5. If flag has been met then skip substr check and do something with the data (at this point the data would be what you are expecting).