Reading large files via PHP?

I'm reading in a 66MB file into php so I can parse it and load it into a database. However, it is taking a long time for php to read the file. So long that the script times out. I know about the ini_set("max_execution_time", 120) or whatever length I want to set the time out for the script, but my question is as follows. Is it possible to read in a file and at the same time echo out a status of how far along the file has been read? The code I have right now is below. Just wondering if what I'm trying to do is possible and how to do it. // set script timeout ini_set("max_execution_time", 120); // import file name $log_file_name = "access_log.1"; echo "Reading access log!<br/>"; if (!$ac_arr = file("./$log_file_name")) { echo "Couldn't load access log!"; die; } Thanks!