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

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76303&edit=1 ID: 76303 Comment by: a at b dot c dot de Reported by: roland at inkoeln dot com Summary: file_get_contents - 4th parameter default was -1 now its 0 Status: Not a bug Type: Documentation Problem Package: Filesystem function related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 7.2.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Why were you passing a negative number for the offset in PHP 5 to begin with? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-05-06 14:02:49] 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 13:55:21] roland at inkoeln dot com 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 this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76303&edit=1