Reading a file line by line in reverse with PHP

Here is a handy function for reading a file line by line in reverse (from the end of the file).

function rfgets($handle) {
    $line = null;
    $n = 0;

    if ($handle) {
        $line = '';

        $started = false;
        $gotline = false;

        while (!$gotline) {
            if (ftell($handle) == 0) {
                fseek($handle, -1, SEEK_END);
            } else {
                fseek($handle, -2, SEEK_CUR);
            }

            $readres = ($char = fgetc($handle));

            if (false === $readres) {
                $gotline = true;
            } elseif ($char == "\n" || $char == "\r") {
                if ($started)
                    $gotline = true;
                else
                    $started = true;
            } elseif ($started) {
                $line .= $char;
            }
        }
    }

    fseek($handle, 1, SEEK_CUR);

    return strrev($line);
}

$filename = 'top-1m.csv';

echo "Reverse reading $filename" . PHP_EOL;

$handle = @fopen($filename, 'r');

for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
    $buffer = rfgets($handle);
    echo $buffer . PHP_EOL;
}

fclose($handle);

The output produced (from the Alexa top 1 million domains list) is:

Reverse reading top-1m.csv
1000000,hingemarketing.com
999999,deluxecar.hu
999998,phototests.com
999997,slutwifegallery.com
999996,himawarigumi.net
999995,niel3d.com
999994,n2itall.blogspot.com
999993,solo-iphone.com
999992,adultmaven.com
999991,celoteh.web.id