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Doc Bug #76303 file_get_contents - 4th parameter default was -1 now its 0
Submitted: 2018-05-06 13:55 UTC Modified: 2018-05-06 14:02 UTC
From: roland at inkoeln dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 7.2.5 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2018-05-06 13:55 UTC] roland at inkoeln dot com
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.file-get-contents
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in php 5.x upto 7.0.x

file_get_contents('merge.json', false, null, -1); 

returns complete file content

in PHP 7.2.3-1ubuntu1 (cli) (built: Mar 14 2018 22:03:58) ( NTS )

file_get_contents('merge.json', false, null, -1);

return only last character (\n)

This breaks backward compatibility for me


Test script:
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<?php

print file_get_contents('some_file.txt', false, null, -1);



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 [2018-05-06 14:02 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2018-05-06 14:02 UTC] requinix@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

This particular behavior is documented in at least three locations so there's no reason to not know about it.
Besides, passing the default values for trailing arguments is silly. Don't do that.
 [2018-05-06 23:30 UTC] a at b dot c dot de
Why were you passing a negative number for the offset in PHP 5 to begin with?
 
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