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New Features

PHP Core

Named Arguments

Support for Named Arguments has been added.

Attributes

Support for Attributes has been added.

Constructor Property Promotion

Support for constructor property promotion (declaring properties in the constructor signature) has been added.

Union Types

Support for union types has been added.

Match Expression

Support for match expressions has been added.

Nullsafe Operator

Support for the nullsafe operator (?->) has been added.

Other new Features

  • The WeakMap class has been added.

  • The ValueError class has been added.

  • Any number of function parameters may now be replaced by a variadic argument, as long as the types are compatible. For example, the following code is now allowed:

    <?php
    class A {
    public function     method(int $many, string $parameters, $here) {}
    }
    class     B extends A {
    public function     method(...$everything) {}
    }
    ?>

  • static (as in "late static binding") can now be used as a return type:

    <?php
    class Test {
    public function     create(): static {
    return new static();
    }
    }
    ?>

  • It is now possible to fetch the class name of an object using $object::class. The result is the same as get_class($object).

  • new and instanceof can now be used with arbitrary expressions, using new (expression)(...$args) and $obj instanceof (expression).

  • Some consistency fixes to variable syntax have been applied, for example writing Foo::BAR::$baz is now allowed.

  • Added Stringable interface, which is automatically implemented if a class defines a __toString() method.

  • Traits can now define abstract private methods. Such methods must be implemented by the class using the trait.

  • throw can now be used as an expression. That allows usages like:

    <?php
    $fn     = fn() => throw new Exception('Exception in arrow function');
    $user = $session->user ?? throw new Exception('Must have user');

  • An optional trailing comma is now allowed in parameter lists.

    <?php
    function functionWithLongSignature(
    Type1 $parameter1,
    Type2 $parameter2, // <-- This comma is now allowed.
    ) {
    }

  • It is now possible to write catch (Exception) to catch an exception without storing it in a variable.

  • Support for mixed type has been added.

  • Private methods declared on a parent class no longer enforce any inheritance rules on the methods of a child class (with the exception of final private constructors). The following example illustrates which restrictions have been removed:

    <?php
    class ParentClass {
    private function     method1() {}
    private function     method2() {}
    private static function     method3() {}
    // Throws a warning, as "final" no longer has an effect:
    private final function method4() {}
    }
    class     ChildClass extends ParentClass {
    // All of the following are now allowed, even though the modifiers aren't
    // the same as for the private methods in the parent class.
    public abstract function method1() {}
    public static function     method2() {}
    public function     method3() {}
    public function     method4() {}
    }
    ?>

  • get_resource_id() has been added, which returns the same value as (int) $resource. It provides the same functionality under a clearer API.

  • The InternalIterator has been added.

Date and Time

DOM

DOMParentNode and DOMChildNode with new traversal and manipulation APIs have been added.

Filter

FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOL has been added as an alias for FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN. The new name is preferred, as it uses the canonical type name.

Enchant

enchant_dict_add(), enchant_dict_is_added(), and LIBENCHANT_VERSION have been added.

FPM

Added a new option pm.status_listen that allows getting the status from different endpoint (e.g. port or UDS file) which is useful for getting the status when all children are busy with serving long running requests.

Hash

HashContext objects can now be serialized.

Internationalization Functions

The IntlDateFormatter::RELATIVE_FULL, IntlDateFormatter::RELATIVE_LONG, IntlDateFormatter::RELATIVE_MEDIUM, and IntlDateFormatter::RELATIVE_SHORT constants have been added.

LDAP

ldap_count_references() has been added, which returns the number of reference messages in a search result.

OPcache

If the opcache.record_warnings ini setting is enabled, OPcache will record compile-time warnings and replay them on the next include, even if it is served from cache.

OpenSSL

Added Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) (» RFC 5652) support composed of functions for encryption, decryption, signing, verifying and reading. The API is similar to the API for PKCS #7 functions with an addition of new encoding constants: OPENSSL_ENCODING_DER, OPENSSL_ENCODING_SMIME and OPENSSL_ENCODING_PEM:

Regular Expressions (Perl-Compatible)

preg_last_error_msg() has been added, which returns a human-readable message for the last PCRE error. It complements preg_last_error(), which returns an integer enum value instead.

Reflection

SQLite3

SQLite3::setAuthorizer() and respective class constants have been added to set a userland callback that will be used to authorize or not an action on the database.

Standard Library

Tokenizer

PhpToken adds an object-based interface to the tokenizer. It provides a more uniform and ergonomic representation, while being more memory efficient and faster.

Zip