The fgetc() function gets a character from an open file. It returns false on eof, or a string containing a single character read from the file pointed to by file_pointer
Syntax
fgetc(file_pointer)
Parameters
file_pointer − The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen() (and not yet closed by fclose()).
Return
The fgetc() function returns false on eof, or a string containing a single character read from the file pointed to by file_pointer.
Example
The following is an example. This reads the first character from the file.
<?php
$file_pointer= fopen("one.txt", "r");
echo fgetc($file_pointer);
fclose($file_pointer);
?>The following is the output. Let’s say our file “two.txt” has the text “Pirates of the Caribbean”. The fgetc returns the first character.
P
Let us see another example that reads character by character. Let’s say our file “two.txt” has the text “James Gosling developed by Java”.
Example
<?php
$file_pointer = fopen("two.txt","r");
while (! feof ($file_pointer)) {
echo fgetc($file_pointer);
}
fclose($file_pointer);
?>Output
James Gosling developed by Java