To answer the bit about the “easiest most time efficient way to handle upgrading this code”. In short, you can’t. First, some background… Roughly 15% of developers use strict_types=1, so you’re in the majority of developers that don’t. You could ignore this problem (deprecation) for now, but PHP 9.0 will cause a lot of problems … Read more
Background: Return types and covariance Since PHP 7.0, it has been possible to specify the return type of a function or method, such as function example(): string to indicate a function that returns a string. This forms a contract that other code can rely on. For instance, this class promises that the getList method will … Read more
This filter had an unclear purpose. It’s difficult to say what exactly it was meant to accomplish or when it should be used. It was also confused with the default string filter, due to its name, when in reality the default string filter is called FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW. The PHP community decided that the usage of this … Read more