PHP Tail File

Efficiently tail a file from PHP - Reads the last x number of lines of a file (similar to Unix's tail command)

• Great performance
• It doesn't load the whole file to memory
• Skips trailing new lines and empty lines
• No dependencies
• Tested on Linux, Windows and macOS
• Compatible with PHP 7.4 and ^8

Usually used to read the last lines of:

• CSV files
• Log files
• JSON files
• text files

Installation

composer require jimenezmaximiliano/php-tail-file

Usage

$numberOfLines = 2;
$filePath = realpath("file.log");

$lines = Tail::tail($filePath, $numberOfLines);

// ["line 30", "line 31"]