PHP Manual . ... PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0) fgets -- Gets line from file pointer . string fgets ( int fp [, int length]) . Returns a string of up to length - 1 bytes read from the file pointed to by fp. Reading ends when length - 1 bytes have been read, on a newline (which is included in the return value), or on EOF (whichever comes first). ... Example 1. ... fd = fopen ("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r"); while (!feof ($fd)) { $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096); echo $buffer; } fclose ($fd); . ...