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stream_get_line

(PHP 5)

stream_get_lineGets line from stream resource up to a given delimiter

Description

string stream_get_line ( resource $handle , int $length [, string $ending ] )

Returns a string of up to length bytes read from the file pointed to by handle . Reading ends when length bytes have been read, when the string specified by ending is found (which is not included in the return value), or on EOF (whichever comes first).

If an error occurs, returns FALSE.

This function is nearly identical to fgets() except in that it allows end of line delimiters other than the standard \n, \r, and \r\n, and does not return the delimiter itself.

See also fread(), fgets(), and fgetc().



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amoo_miki at yahoo dot com
19-Aug-2008 02:34
If the "ending" is a string, there are cases where the function doesn't return the correct value for the first time it is called. Don't be shocked if you find it returning a string value of upto "length" that includes the "ending". (See bug #44607)

If the "ending" is just a single character, the function would always work correctly. ("\n" is a single character)

Temporarily, until this is fixed, the below function can be used:

<?php
function istream_get_line(&$fp, $length, $end) {
   
$current = ftell($fp);
   
$str = fread($fp, $length);
   
$i = strpos($str, $end);
    if (
$i === FALSE) {
        return
$str;   
    } else {
       
fseek($fp, $current + $i + strlen($end));
        return
substr($str, 0, $i);
    }
}
?>
mail at mdijksman dot nl
15-May-2008 07:32
In addition to dante at lorenso dot com:

I was having problems reading the header of a response with stream_get_line, on the Date: part.

<?php
   
// Sometimes took about 2 minutes
   
while (!feof($fp))                                                                                
    {
       
$line = stream_get_line($fp, 1024, "\n");                                                       
               
        if (
strcmp($line, "\r") == 0)                                                               
        {
            break;
        }       
    }        
   
   
// Always takes less than a second
   
while (!feof($fp))                                                                                
    {
       
$line = fgets($fp, 1024);
               
        if (
strcmp($line, "\r\n") == 0)                                                               
        {
            break;
        }       
    }        
?>

I could find no logic in this, as the stream_get_line sometimes went fast, and sometimes went really slow. In the end I just stopped using stream_get_line and switched to fgets.
Mat Jaggard at Tickets dot com
20-Dec-2007 01:12
I've spent quite a while trying to get stream_get_line to get a chunk encoded html file and to finish correctly at the end so that I can pipeline requests.

This is the function I have come up with.

<?php
   
function getURLContents($url, $ip, $port, $ssl = false, $closeConnection = false)
    {
        if (
$ssl)
           
$ssl = 'ssl://';
        else
           
$ssl = '';
       
$fp = pfsockopen($ssl.$ip, $port, $errno, $errstr, MAX_TIME_TO_START_CONNECTION);
        if (
$fp)
        {
           
$out 'GET '.$url." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
           
$out .= 'Host: '.$ip.':'.$port."\r\n";
            if (
$closeConnection)
               
$out .= "Connection: close\r\n";
            else
               
$out .= "Connection: keep-alive\r\n";
           
$out .= "\r\n";
            if (!
fwrite($fp, $out))
            {
                echo
'Problem writing to socket, opening a new connection.';
               
fclose($fp);
               
$fp = pfsockopen($ssl.$ip, $port, $errno, $errstr, MAX_TIME_TO_START_CONNECTION);
               
fwrite($fp, $out);
            }
           
$theData = '';
           
$notDone = true;
           
stream_set_blocking($fp, 0);
           
$startTime = time();
           
$lastTime = $startTime;
            while (!
feof($fp) && !$done && (($startTime + MAX_TIME_FOR_THE_RESPONSE) > time()))
            {
               
usleep(100);
               
$theNewData = stream_get_line($fp, 1024, "\n");
               
$theData .= $theNewData;
               
$done = (trim($theNewData) === '0');

            }
        }
        else
        {
            echo
'ERROR CONNECTING TO '.$ip.':'.$port;
            return
false;
        }
        if (
$closeConnection)
           
fclose($fp);
        return
$theData;
    }
?>
dante at lorenso dot com
08-Jun-2006 04:34
My testing has found this function to be dramatically faster than fgets on PHP 5.1.14.  The difference is probably due to how buffering is used internally.  Compare the following:
<?php
// reads 10,000 lines in 27 seconds
while (!feof($handle)) {
   
$line = fgets($handle, 1000000);
}
?>
vs.
<?php
// reads 10,000 lines in 0.5 seconds
while (!feof($handle)) {
   
$line = stream_get_line($handle, 1000000, "\n");
}
?>
18-Apr-2006 06:07
In version 5.0.4 using this funtion and then calling ftell($stream) would give you the position up to but not including the "ending" string.

When I rev'd to PHP version 5.1.2, calling this function then using ftell($stream) would give the position up to AND including the "ending" string

for example, parsing HTTP responses.

The response from apache using curl....
------------------------------------------------------------
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:54:59 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/5.0.4 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.4
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

<html><body>test</body></html>
-------------------------------------------------------------

The code:

<?php

  $headers
= stream_get_line($in,4096,"\r\n\r\n");

  
fseek ($in,ftell($in)+4);

   while (!
feof($in)){
     
fputs ($out,stream_get_line($in,4096,''));
   }

?>

prior to my 5.0.4 this worked perfectly, trimming the \r\n\r\n section of the HTTP response and seperating the top into the $headers string, and the rest was placed into the file handle $out.

using php 5.1.2, the above code chopps off the first 4 bytes of the HTTP response and puts

l><body>test</body></html>

into $out.

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