diff --git a/reference/spl/splfileinfo/getextension.xml b/reference/spl/splfileinfo/getextension.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6e59f81796
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+++ b/reference/spl/splfileinfo/getextension.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- $Revision$ -->
+
+<refentry xml:id="splfileinfo.getextension" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>SplFileInfo::getExtension</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Gets the file extension</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis>
+   <modifier>public</modifier> <type>string</type><methodname>SplFileInfo::getExtension</methodname>
+   <void />
+  </methodsynopsis>
+  <para>
+    Retrieves the file extension.
+  </para>
+
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="parameters">
+  &reftitle.parameters;
+  &no.function.parameters;
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;
+  <para>
+    Returns a <type>string</type> containing the file extension, or an
+    empty <type>string</type> if the file has no extension.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <example>
+   <title><function>SplFileInfo::getExtension</function> example</title>
+   <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+
+$info = new SplFileInfo('foo.txt');
+var_dump($info->getExtension());
+
+$info = new SplFileInfo('photo.jpg');
+var_dump($info->getExtension());
+
+?>
+]]>
+   </programlisting>
+   &example.outputs;
+   <screen>
+<![CDATA[
+string(3) "txt"
+string(3) "jpg"
+]]>
+   </screen>
+  </example>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="seealso">
+  &reftitle.seealso;
+  <simplelist>
+   <member><methodname>SplFileInfo::getFilename</methodname></member>
+   <member><methodname>SplFileInfo::getBasename</methodname></member>
+   <member><function>pathinfo</function></member>
+  </simplelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/.phpdoc/manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->
diff --git a/reference/spl/versions.xml b/reference/spl/versions.xml
index 59affccb8e..55623c86ef 100644
--- a/reference/spl/versions.xml
+++ b/reference/spl/versions.xml
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@
  <function name='splfileinfo::getatime' from='PHP 5 &gt;= 5.1.2'/>
  <function name='splfileinfo::getbasename' from='PHP 5 &gt;= 5.2.2'/>
  <function name='splfileinfo::getctime' from='PHP 5 &gt;= 5.1.2'/>
+ <function name='splfileinfo::getextension' from='PHP 5 &gt;= 5.3.6'/>
  <function name='splfileinfo::getfileinfo' from='PHP 5 &gt;= 5.1.2'/>
  <function name='splfileinfo::getfilename' from='PHP 5 &gt;= 5.1.2'/>
  <function name='splfileinfo::getgroup' from='PHP 5 &gt;= 5.1.2'/>