Question

The closest I’ve seen in the PHP docs, is to fread() a given length, but that doesnt specify which line to start from. Any other suggestions?

Answer 1

You not going to be able to read starting from line X because lines can be of arbitrary length. So you will have to read from the start counting the number of lines read to get to line X. For example:

<?php $f = fopen('sample.txt', 'r'); $lineNo = 0; $startLine = 3; $endLine = 6; while ($line = fgets($f)) {     $lineNo++;     if ($lineNo >= $startLine) {         echo $line;     }     if ($lineNo == $endLine) {         break;     } } fclose($f);