PHp read large file

gistfile1.php

/**
 * Demonstrate an efficient way to search the last 100 lines of a file
 * containing roughly ten million lines for a sample string. This should
 * function without having to process each line of the file (and without making
 * use of the “tail” command or any external system commands). 
 */

$filename = '/opt/local/apache2/logs/karwin-access_log';
$searchString = 'index.php';
$numLines = 100;
$maxLineLength = 200;

$fp = fopen($filename, 'r');

$data = fseek($fp, -($numLines * $maxLineLength), SEEK_END);

$lines = array();
while (!feof($fp)) {
  $lines[] = fgets($fp);
}

$c = count($lines);
$i = $c >= $numLines? $c-$numLines: 0;
for (; $i<$c; ++$i) {
  if ($pos = strpos($lines[$i], $searchString)) {
    echo $lines[$i];
  }
}