if this data is constantly read/written there could be a huge degradation in your app performance. if you really need to store these documents. consider using a document storage db such as mongodb.
that said, there are numerous ways to read from text file. you can make your own file read function or use something like fgetcsv in php. Do some googling there are hundreds of tutorials on how to do this.
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