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Class ChunkedFileReader helps you to read content from text files without loading whole file contents in RAM. It implements a SeekableIterator and allows you to read file chunk by chunk.

Warning!

If you have 32-bit installation of PHP, this class won't work with files large than 2 gigabytes. Use 64-bit and check value of PHP_INT_MAX - this is maximum in bytes that you will be able to traverse. See fseek() for more details on this problem.

Installation

Use Composer to install package or download and include files manually to your project.

Usage

Make sure ChunkedFileReader is installed and available in your namespace. You can traverse file whatever way you prefer. You should have class than can handle and process chunks.

$chunkSize = 128;
$reader = new ChunkedFileReader($path, $chunkSize);
$chunkParser = new MyCustomChunkParserThatKnowsWhatToDoWithChunks();
foreach($reader as $chunkPosition => $chunk) {
    // chunks will contain 128 bytes of data
    // in order of appearance until EOF
    $chunkParser->process($chunk)
}

Development

This package needs improvement, any contribution is welcomed.

License

MIT