- It is used to return a line from a file pointer and stops returning at the specified length, at the end of the file (EOF) or on a new line, at whichever comes first.
- The file to read and the number of bytes to read are sent as parameters to fgets(), and it returns a -1 byte string from the file specified by the user.
- Returns False on failure. Syntax:
fgets (file, length) Parameters Used: The fgets() function in PHP accepts two parameters. file:It specifies the file from which characters have to be extracted. length:It specifies the number of bytes to be read by the fgets() function. The default value is 1024 bytes.Returned value:Returns a -1 byte string from a file specified by the user, or False on error.Errors and Exceptions
This is the second line.
This is the third line. Program 1
< ? php
// the file is opened using the fopen() function $my_file = fopen ( "gfg.txt" , "rw" );
// Prints one line from the open file pointer echo fgets ( $my_file );
// file is closed with fclose() fclose ( $my_file ); ?> Output:This is the first line.Program 2
// the file is opened using the fopen() function $my_file = fopen ( "gfg.txt " , " rw " );
// prints one line at a time until the end of the file is reached while (! feof ( $my_file )) { echo fgets ( $my_file ); }
// the file is closed using the fclose() function fclose ( $my_file ); ?> Output:This is the first line. This is the second line. This is the third line.
Link:
http://php.net/ manual / en / function.fgets.php