Read each line of txt file to new array element

Question

If you don't need any special processing, this should do what you're looking for

$lines = file($filename, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);

The fastest way that I've found is:

// Open the file
$fp = @fopen($filename, 'r'); 

// Add each line to an array
if ($fp) {
   $array = explode("\n", fread($fp, filesize($filename)));
}

where $filename is going to be the path & name of your file, eg. ../filename.txt.

Depending how you've set up your text file, you'll have might have to play around with the \n bit.

Just use this:

$array = explode("\n", file_get_contents('file.txt'));

$yourArray = file("pathToFile.txt", FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);

FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES avoid to add newline at the end of each array element
You can also use FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES to Skip empty lines

reference here

<?php
$file = fopen("members.txt", "r");
$members = array();

while (!feof($file)) {
   $members[] = fgets($file);
}

fclose($file);

var_dump($members);
?>

It's just easy as that:

$lines = explode("\n", file_get_contents('foo.txt'));

file_get_contents() - gets the whole file as string.

explode("\n") - will split the string with the delimiter "\n" - what is ASCII-LF escape for a newline.

But pay attention - check that the file has UNIX-Line endings.

If "\n" will not work properly you have another coding of newline and you can try "\r\n", "\r" or "\025"

$lines = array();
while (($line = fgets($file)) !== false)
    array_push($lines, $line);

Obviously, you'll need to create a file handle first and store it in $file.