Read Last 5 Lines of a Text File in PHP

To read only 5 last lines of the text file, the code is as follows −

Example

$file = file("filename.txt");
for ($i = max(0, count($file)-6); $i < count($file); $i++) {
   echo $file[$i] . "
";
}

Output

This will produce the following output −

Given that the file has more than 5 lines of text, the last 5 lines of the text file will be displayed.

The file is opened and the number of lines in the file are counted, and beginning from the last line, 5 lines are read.