The manual seems to be wrong about the minimum required version PHP version, this should be PHP 5.6.0. See https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.6.0/NEWS. On PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.20 I get Attempted to call an undefined method named "fread" of class "SplFileObject"
SplFileObject::fread
(PHP 5 >= 5.5.11, PHP 7, PHP 8)
SplFileObject::fread — Read from file
Description
Reads the given number of bytes from the file.
Parameters
-
length -
The number of bytes to read.
Return Values
Returns the string read from the file or false on failure.
Examples
Example #1 SplFileObject::fread() example
<?php
// Get contents of a file into a string
$filename = "/usr/local/something.txt";
$file = new SplFileObject($filename, "r");
$contents = $file->fread($file->getSize());
?>Notes
Note:
Note that SplFileObject::fread() reads from the current position of the file pointer. Use SplFileObject::ftell() to find the current position of the pointer and SplFileObject::rewind() (or SplFileObject::fseek()) to rewind the pointer position.
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Sander de Goeij ¶
7 years ago
