Doc #76303 [NEW]: file_get_contents - 4th parameter default was -1 now its 0

From: roland at inkoeln dot com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 7.2.5 Package: Filesystem function related Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:file_get_contents - 4th parameter default was -1 now its 0 Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.file-get-contents --- 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: --------------- <?php print file_get_contents('some_file.txt', false, null, -1); -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76303&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76303&r=mysqlcfg