How to fread() starting from a certain line?

[s3nzo]

Hello Guys.

I get a lot of server hangs and exceed max_connections, so i wanted to try reducing the load by using a .txt file.
Do you know if it's possible to read a file starting from a certain line? e.g if i want to read a file starting from line 10 ending at line 15? on a db it's

$mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM `table` LIMIT 10, 5") 

Now can the same results be achieved reading a txt file?

[ionutvmi]

maybe like this

function myfread($file, $start = 1, $end = false){
    $content = '';
    $data = file($file);
    for($i = ($start-1); $i < ($end ? $end : count($data)); $i++)
        $content .= $data[$i];
    return $content;
}


echo myfread("test.txt",2,5)." - ";
echo myfread("test.txt",4)." - ";
echo myfread("test.txt")." - "; 

[kevk3v]

<?php

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

?>

[shushant]

why dont you use SQLite or Doctrine 2