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End PEAR Project Endorsement
PEAR was historically promoted as a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. That historical relationship has become a liability for the P...
Throw ValueError for invalid characters in number base functions
Functions that convert numbers from one base to another (bindec(), octdec(), hexdec(), and base_convert()) accept a string representation of a number and conver...
IntlRelativeDateTimeFormatter
Formatting relative date and time values is a common requirement for user
interfaces, notifications, activity feeds, logs, you name it.
Examples include 3 days ...
PREG_THROW_ON_ERROR
Regular expressions fail, and PHP barely tells you when they do. A bad pattern or bad UTF-8 hands you false or null, the same falsy value a clean no-match gives...
Concurrency Support in the PHP Engine
PHP has no engine-level way to run code concurrently. Fibers (PHP 8.1) added the low-level
primitive, cooperative context switching, but no scheduler: deciding ...
Literal Scalar Types
PHP type declarations can name a scalar type such as int, float or string, but they cannot restrict a value to a specific member of that type. PHP already has t...
Left-to-right assignment operator
Left-to-right assignment operator can be used to reduce congnitive complexity when using long chain of pipe operators.
Add bundled user_cache extension
PHP has historically adopted a shared-nothing architecture that
frees all request-scoped userland memory at the end of each request.
Function Autoloading (mark 5)
Class autoloading has existed in PHP for 20+ years. However, there is no equivalent for function autoloading.
Implement Function Autoloading as described in this RFC?
Yes
2 Votes (14%)
No
11 Votes (79%)
Abstain
1 Votes (7%)
Native Markup Expressions
PHP began as a templating language - code embedded inside HTML. As the language and its ecosystem have matured, the inverse has become just as desirable: embedd...
grapheme_mask
In modern web applications, handling Personally Identifiable Information (PII) securely is a critical requirement. Developers frequently need to obfuscate or ma...
Primary Constructors
Primary constructors let a class declare its constructor parameters directly in the class header, immediately after the class name. This generalizes PHP 8.0's c...
Social Media and Marketing Communications Policy
The PHP project maintains official accounts on several social media platforms, but it has no formal policy governing those accounts. Credentials are held by ind...
Serializable closures, by reference to the code that declares them
PHP 8.5 allowed closures inside constant expressions: anonymous static function () {} and
first-class callables foo(...), in attribute arguments and parameter d...
Working Groups
For over 30 years, the PHP Project has thrived through the individual efforts of its contributors, and the RFC process has proven effective for making technical...
Friends
PHP has three visibility levels
Scope Functions
This RFC proposes a variant of closures for the common case of a callback that runs inside its defining function.
Add MariaDB-specific features to mysqlnd and mysqli
The PHP MySQL ecosystem is currently centered around mysqlnd, mysqli, and PDO_MySQL, which together provide a unified and efficient interface for interacting wi...
php-community: a faster-moving, community-driven PHP.
With this proposal, the entire PHP community gets immediate access to experimental features through an official php-community version of PHP, versioned in a rol...
Prevent instantiation and cloning of __PHP_Incomplete_Class
This RFC proposes to prevent instantiation and cloning of the internal class __PHP_Incomplete_Class.
SIMD-Accelerated CRC via crc-fast for ext/hash
This RFC proposes adding optional support for the crc-fast library in PHP's ext/hash extension, enabling SIMD-accelerated CRC-32 and CRC-64 computation. When en...
Readonly Variables
PHP has long supported immutable values through define() and the const keyword at the global and class scope. However, there is currently no way to declare a va...
Query Parameter Manipulation Support
Despite being the web's most prominent server-side language for over 30 years, PHP still lacks a proper built-in API for working with query parameters. The exis...
Trailing Boolean Operators
This RFC proposes allowing trailing boolean operators (&&, ||, and, or) in parenthesized expressions, mirroring the existing support for trailing commas in arra...
Pipe to return
Piping result of expression to return keyword can be used to reduce congnitive complexity.
Deprecate Fuzzy Type Casts and Allow Stringable in Strict Mode
PHP's type conversion system contains differences between explicit casts and scalar type checks. This RFC addresses two issues:
Partial Function Application for instance of non-static methods ("$this")
Partial Function Application enabled convenient creation of Closures that just defer to an existing function with some parameters already filled in with the rem...
Type Aliases
Type aliases provide a mechanism to create more descriptive and readable type hints in PHP code. This RFC proposes type aliases that are resolved at compile tim...
Namespace-Scoped Visibility for Methods and Properties
This RFC proposes adding namespace-scoped visibility to methods and properties in PHP, using the syntax private(namespace). This allows classes within the same ...
Add values() Method to BackedEnum
Backed enums frequently need an indexed list of their backing values (int|string). Today this is commonly implemented in userland using a helper method or a tra...
Add data encoding API
To improve interoperability between PHP and other programming languages, and to simplify data encoding in PHP, we propose adding native support for encoding and...
TidyException type for tidy
The goal is to allow the tidy extension to have its own exception type, TidyException, with which can be used for the tidy(p) C api usage, thinking about this w...
Nullable and Non-Nullable Cast Operators
PHP's type casting operators currently almost always convert values to the target type even if it cannot be represented from the original value.
For example nul...
Context Managers
Context Managers are a concept borrowed from Python. They provide a way to abstract out common control-flow and variable-lifetime-management patterns, leading ...
Add #[NoSerialize] attribute for excluding properties or classes from serialization
Serialization is a fundamental PHP mechanism that allows objects to be converted into a storable or transferable representation.
Object-oriented curl API v2
As part of the Resource to object conversion project, PHP internals developers converted curl resource types to objects. These objects do not have any methods, ...
Drop 32-bit Builds
Historically, PHP has supported both 32-bit and 64-bit environments. However, the vast majority of production deployments now use 64-bit systems. Major operatin...
JSON Schema validation support
The JSON extension does not offer any way to structurally validate the content except for basic
syntax checking. Being able to validate the actual structure wou...
Transform void into an alias for null
The void type was introduced in PHP 7.1 with the Void return type RFC. The motivation for introducing this type was to specify that no value should be returned ...
num_available_processors
Knowing the number of CPU cores can be useful in various applications. For example, in Nextcloud, we use it to limit the number of previews generated simultaneo...
Change default zend.exception_ignore_args INI setting
The zend.exception_ignore_args INI setting was introduced in PHP 7.4.0 and allows arguments to be excluded from stack traces generated for exceptions.
Modern Compression
Integrating zstd (Zstandard) and brotli compression formats into PHP's core would significantly enhance the language's data compression capabilities.
Warn on conversions from resource to string
PHP has a history of performing various forms of type conversions.
While most dubious cases of such conversions nowadays throw a TypeError,
or at least emit an ...
Deprecate json_encode() on classes marked as non-serializable
PHP internally marks some classes as not fit for serialization using a flag ZEND_ACC_NOT_SERIALIZABLE which prevents instances of such classes from being serial...
Add get_declared_enums() function
This RFC proposes to add a new get_declared_enums() function in the next PHP 8.x release and to make the behaviour of the related functions consistent by:
Should PHP have a directive that makes the parser treat all namespaced function calls as global?
When calling functions from the global namespace, the PHP parser creates opcodes that use those functions directly. When those functions are certain built-in fu...
Allow int type argument to BCMath function
Currently, BCMath functions only accept values as strings. If want to calculate an int type with BCMath, need to convert it to a string once, which incurs unnec...
Static Constructors
In PHP, initializing static properties with non-constant values often requires cumbersome workarounds that can clutter the code and reduce readability. One comm...
Improve language coherence for the behaviour of offsets and containers
PHP supports accessing sub-elements of a type via an offset using brackets [] with the following notation $container[$offset].
However, the behaviour of such ac...
Pattern Matching
This RFC introduces pattern matching syntax for PHP. Pattern Matching as a language concept contains two parts: Matching a variable against a potentially compl...
Native TLS for globals in ZTS
Currently the way globals work forces to pass a thread-local-storage pointer across function calls, which involves some overhead. Also, not all functions get th...