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According to this blog post: https://blogs.oracle.com/netbeansphp/entry/improve_your_code_with_new there's some cases where the error control operator (@) is allowed, being fopen one of them. This said, I guess file_get_contents should be one of those cases as well, as it serves almost the same purpose as fopen usually does (yep, I know fopen does some other fancy stuff, but still).