Hi,
Can you please explain what your software does?
To me it sounds like you have text files that are updated independently to your php program and you want to parse them and display the text in them in a specific order. Is that correct?
If so i would probably be a bit lazy and set up elasticsearch and logstash, where logstash would monitor and parse your files and load them into elastic search. Then you can build your front-end in CI to display and/or search the data from elasticsearch in whatever way you like.
