Re: [Phplib-users] tail -f

[Frank B. <fb...@sy...>]

At 07:54 AM 12/17/02, Poduje, Miguel (LanInfo) wrote:
>How can i do a "tail -f" in php?
>I need to read a file in online mode.
>
>regards


To simply dump the contents of file out to webpage, then try:
         system('tail -f /path/to/file');

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php

or if you are looking to be able to process the data first yourself, then 
try popen():
         http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.popen.php