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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.fgets">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>fgets</refname>
  <refpurpose>Gets line from file pointer</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>string</type><methodname>fgets</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>handle</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>length</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Gets a line from file pointer.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>handle</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      &fs.validfp.all;
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>length</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Reading ends when <parameter>length</parameter> - 1 bytes have been
       read, or a newline (which is included in the return value), or an EOF
       (whichever comes first). If no length is specified, it will keep
       reading from the stream until it reaches the end of the line.
      </para>
      <note>
       <para>
        Until PHP 4.3.0, omitting it would assume 1024 as the line length.
        If the majority of the lines in the file are all larger than 8KB,
        it is more resource efficient for your script to specify the maximum
        line length.
       </para>
      </note>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns a string of up to <parameter>length</parameter> - 1 bytes read from
   the file pointed to by <parameter>handle</parameter>. If there is no more data 
   to read in the file pointer, then &false; is returned.
  </para>
  <para>
   If an error occurs, &false; is returned.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="changelog">
  &reftitle.changelog;
  <para>
   <informaltable>
    <tgroup cols="2">
     <thead>
      <row>
       <entry>&Version;</entry>
       <entry>&Description;</entry>
      </row>
     </thead>
     <tbody>
      <row>
       <entry>4.3.0</entry>
       <entry>
        <function>fgets</function> is now binary safe
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>4.2.0</entry>
       <entry>
        The <parameter>length</parameter> parameter became optional
       </entry>
      </row>
     </tbody>
    </tgroup>
   </informaltable>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Reading a file line by line</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$handle = @fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
        echo $buffer;
    }
    if (!feof($handle)) {
        echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
    }
    fclose($handle);
}
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="notes">
  &reftitle.notes;
  &note.line-endings;
  <note>
   <para>
    People used to the 'C' semantics of <function>fgets</function>
    should note the difference in how <literal>EOF</literal> is returned.
   </para>
  </note>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>fgetss</function></member>
    <member><function>fread</function></member>
    <member><function>fgetc</function></member>
    <member><function>stream_get_line</function></member>
    <member><function>fopen</function></member>
    <member><function>popen</function></member>
    <member><function>fsockopen</function></member>
    <member><function>stream_set_timeout</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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