Just use file
function with FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES
flag.
The file
reads a whole file and returns an array contains all of the file lines.
Each line contains new line character at their end as default, but we can enforce trimming by FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES
flag.
So it will be simply:
$lines = file('file.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
The result should be:
var_dump($lines);
array(5) {
[0] => string(5) "Hello"
[1] => string(5) "World"
[2] => string(4) "John"
[3] => string(4) "play"
[4] => string(8) "football"
}