As of PHP 8.0, this will be possible with the inclusion of Union Types. The proposal has been voted 61 in favour to 5 against, and the implementation is ready to go. There was a previous RFC proposing this, mentioned in another answer, but that one ended up being rejected. It will work exactly as … Read more
THE SOLUTION As explained here latest version of laravel 6, 7 and 8 has made changes required for php 8. all you have to do is: 1- add php 8 to your composer.json (I’ve kept v7.4 just in case production server does not support php 8 yet) “php”: “^7.4|^8.0”, 2- to run composer update to … Read more
The Problem As well as the versions of other packages they require, Composer packages can specify the versions of PHP which they support. While resolving the versions of packages to install, Composer has to find versions which match all the constraints in place: The version constraints you’ve specified for dependencies in your composer.json The version … Read more
This style of function declaration has been deprecated in PHP 8.0. Writing functions like this has never made sense, since all parameters (up to the last required one) would need to be specified when the function was called. It also caused confusion with use of the ReflectionFunctionAbstract class to analyze functions and methods. The new … Read more
No, it is not possible (before PHP 8.0): if you want to pass the third parameter, you have to pass the second one. And named parameters are not possible either. A “solution” would be to use only one parameter, an array, and always pass it… But don’t always define everything in it. For instance : … Read more
From PHP 8, you are able to use the null safe operator which combined with the null coalescing operator allows you to write code like: echo $data->getMyObject()?->getName() ?? ”; By using ?-> instead of -> the chain of operators is terminated and the result will be null. The operators that “look inside an object” are … Read more