SplFileObject::fgets

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)

SplFileObject::fgets — Gets line from file

Description

public string SplFileObject::fgets ( void )

Gets a line from the file.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns a string containing the next line from the file, or FALSE on error.

Errors/Exceptions

Throws a RuntimeException if the file cannot be read.

Examples

Example #1 SplFileObject::fgets() example

This example simply outputs the contents of file.txt line-by-line.

<?php
$file = new SplFileObject("file.txt");
while (!$file->eof()) {
    echo $file->fgets();
}
?>

See Also

• fgets() - Gets line from file pointer
• SplFileObject::fgetss() - Gets line from file and strip HTML tags
• SplFileObject::fgetc() - Gets character from file
• SplFileObject::current() - Retrieve current line of file