What is the best practice for accessing and storing individual lines of data from a file in PHP?

When accessing and storing individual lines of data from a file in PHP, it is best practice to use the file() function to read the file into an array, and then access each line by its index in the array. This allows for easy manipulation and storage of each line separately. 

$file = "data.txt";
$lines = file($file);

foreach ($lines as $line) {
    // Process each line as needed
    echo $line . "<br>";
}

Keywords

file handling fopen fgets file_get_contents file_put_contents

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