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Add bcdivmod to BCMath
BCMath has bcdiv() and bcmod(), and the operation must be performed twice to obtain both the quotient and remainder. This is also true for the BcMath\Number cla...
Add bcdivmod to BCMath
Yes
21 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Fix up BCMath Number Class / Change GMP bool cast behavior
Regarding RFC: Support object type in BCMath, I received several comments and suggestions, so I created this RFC to respond to them.
Fix up BCMath Number Class
Yes
18 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Change GMP bool cast behavior
Yes
19 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Property hook improvements
While finalizing the implementation of the property hooks RFC patch, we have found a small area for improvement. This is nominally changes from the behavior de...
Remove the extra hook recursion guard?
Yes
33 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Lazy Objects
Transparent lazy-initialization of objects is an important part of many PHP applications. However, achieving this kind of laziness in userland is complex, limit...
Add lazy-objects as described to the engine
Yes
26 Votes (84%)
No
5 Votes (16%)
Asymmetric Visibility v2
PHP has long had the ability to control the visibility of object properties -- public, private, or protected. However, that control is always the same for both...
Implement asymmetric visibility?
Yes
24 Votes (77%)
No
7 Votes (23%)
Transform exit() from a language construct into a standard function
The exit language construct (and its alias die) can be used on its own without parentheses
1)
to terminate a PHP script with status code 0, or it can be used l...
Accept Transform exit() from a language construct into a standard function RFC?
Yes
24 Votes (67%)
No
12 Votes (33%)
#[\Deprecated] Attribute
PHPs internal functions and (class-)constants can be marked as deprecated, making this information available to Reflection and emitting deprecation errors (E_DE...
Implement the #[\Deprecated] attribute?
Yes
23 Votes (79%)
No
6 Votes (21%)
Include the Deprecated::$since property?
Yes
22 Votes (96%)
No
1 Votes (4%)
Correctly name the rounding mode and make it an Enum
There are eight rounding modes in the current master branch (8.4):
Add the RoundingMode enum as described?
Yes
34 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Add stream open functions to XML{Reader,Writer}
The XMLReader and XMLWriter classes deal with XML in a stream-oriented manner. The former implements an XML pull parser. This means that instead of keeping the ...
Accept adding the methods from the Main Proposal section?
Yes
12 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Accept adding the methods from the Consistency section?
Yes
13 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
New ext-dom features in PHP 8.4
The PHP 8.4 development cycle has seen two major improvements to the ext-dom extension already: HTML 5 support, and opt-in spec compliance. This RFC is (probabl...
Accept PHP 8.4 DOM additions RFC?
Yes
25 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
PDO Driver specific SQL parsers
The PDO extension contains a SQL parser, whose main purpose is to recognise parameter placeholders inside queries (i.e. ? and :paramName), so that it knows how ...
Implement PDO Driver specific SQL parsers?
Yes
27 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
array_find
This RFC proposes the addition of new array functions: array_find, array_find_key, array_any and array_all, which are helper functions for common patterns of ch...
Add array_find() and array_find_key()?
Yes
21 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Add array_any() and array_all()?
Yes
20 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Support object type in BCMath
BCMath currently only supports procedural functionality and does not support object types. Object-based programming is mainstream these days, so it's a bit outd...
Support object type in BCMath
Yes
18 Votes (86%)
No
3 Votes (14%)
Initial value for implicit rounding mode
PHP_ROUND_HALF_UP
16 Votes (94%)
PHP_ROUND_TOWARD_ZERO
1 Votes (6%)
Grapheme cluster for str_split function: grapheme_str_split
I noticed PHP does not have a grapheme cluster based str_split function. So I think need str_split for grapheme cluster, grapheme_str_split function using ICU. ...
Add grapheme cluster for str_split function: grapheme_str_split
Yes
19 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate GET/POST sessions
PHP supports two ways to propagate session token ID: via cookies and through GET or POST parameters. Cookies are the default preferred method that has become th...
Accept Deprecate GET/POST session identifiers
Yes
29 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Dedicated StreamBucket class
When using user filters for stream processing, one of the fundamental concepts is stream buckets. A stream bucket is effectively a chunk of stream which can be ...
Add the StreamBucket class as proposed?
yes
20 Votes (100%)
no
0 Votes (0%)
Multibyte for ucfirst, lcfirst functions, mb_ucfirst mb_lcfirst
PHP does not have a multibyte equivalent of ucfirst, lcfirst functions. It is possible to get close enough behavior below:
Add mb_ucfirst and mb_lcfirst functions
Yes
15 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Opt-in DOM spec-compliance
The DOM extension in PHP is used to parse, query, and manipulate XML/HTML documents. The DOM extension is supposed to follow the DOM specification.
Originally t...
Accept Opt-in DOM spec-compliance RFC?
Yes
14 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Raising zero to the power of negative number
Raising a number to the power of a negative number is equivalent to taking the reciprocal of the number raised to the positive opposite of the power.
RFC: Raising zero to the power of negative number
Yes
27 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Add http_(get|clear)_last_response_headers() function
The $http_response_header
variable is magically created in the local scope whenever an HTTP request is performed through PHP's stream layer,
i.e. when using the...
Accept Add http_(get|clear)_last_response_headers() function RFC?
Yes
15 Votes (94%)
No
1 Votes (6%)
new MyClass()->method() without parentheses
The class member access on instantiation feature
was introduced in PHP 5.4.0.
Since then constants, properties and methods can be accessed on a newly created in...
Allow to omit parentheses around the new expression as described?
Yes
25 Votes (86%)
No
4 Votes (14%)
Deprecate implicitly nullable parameter types
PHP supports nullable type declarations as of PHP 7.1 with the ?T syntax,
and with the T|null syntax as of PHP 8.0 when generalized support for union types was ...
Accept Deprecate implicitly nullable parameter types RFC?
Yes
26 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Improve callbacks in ext/dom and ext/xsl
The DOMXPath class allows developers to run XPath expression queries on HTML/XML documents.
The XSLTProcessor class allows developers to perform XSL transformat...
Accept the proposed changes to registerPhpFunctions in ext/dom and ext/xsl?
Yes
15 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Add registerPhpFunctionNS to ext/dom and ext/xsl?
Yes
13 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Multibyte for trim function mb_trim, mb_ltrim and mb_rtrim
PHP does not have a multibyte equivalent of the trim function. It is possible to get close enough behavior using preg_replace(/^\s+|\s+$/u, '', $string), howeve...
Multibyte for trim function mb_trim, mb_ltrim and mb_rtrim
Yes
15 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Introduce request_parse_body() in PHP 8.4?
Yes
23 Votes (96%)
No
1 Votes (4%)
Unbundle ext/imap, ext/pspell, ext/oci8, and ext/PDO_OCI
PHP currently bundles the ext/imap, ext/pspell, ext/oci8, and ext/PDO_OCI extensions, which all suffer from issues with external dependencies.
Unbundle ext/imap
Yes
27 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Unbundle ext/pspell
Yes
27 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Unbundle ext/oci8 and ext/PDO_OCI
Yes
26 Votes (96%)
No
1 Votes (4%)
Adding bcround, bcfloor and bcceil to BCMath
As you know, BCMath is an arbitrary precision mathematical function that supports exact calculations. As of the writing of this RFC, nine calculation functions ...
Adding bcround, bcfloor and bcceil to BCMath
Yes
13 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
XML_OPTION_PARSE_HUGE
ext/xml allows the user to parse XML in an event-driven way (SAX). The user can register callbacks to be called when certain nodes are encountered while parsing...
Add XML_OPTION_PARSE_HUGE parsing option
Yes
11 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Increasing the default BCrypt cost
PHP's default BCrypt cost for password_hash is unchanged since the addition of the password hashing API in PHP 5.5 which was 11 years ago.
Increase the default BCrypt cost?
Yes
25 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Increase the default BCrypt cost to?
11 (less than 160ms per hash)
12 Votes (46%)
12 (less than 330ms per hash)
14 Votes (54%)
Add 4 new rounding modes to round() function
The RFC proposes to add 4 new modes to the round() function.
Implement 4 new rounding modes to `round()` function
Yes
19 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Create aliases for Intl extension constants ROUND_UP and ROUND_DOWN: ROUND_AWAY_FROM_ZERO and ROUND_TOWARD_ZERO
Yes
10 Votes (63%)
No
6 Votes (38%)
DOM HTML5 parsing and serialization
Important: parts of this RFC were further enhanced by https://wiki.php.net/rfc/opt_in_dom_spec_compliance
Introduce the proposed DOM classes and namespace aliases
Yes
16 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
DOM\HTMLDocument::fromFile should respect the resolver set by libxml_set_external_entity_loader
Yes
1 Votes (9%)
No
10 Votes (91%)
Property hooks
Developers often use methods to wrap and guard access to object properties. There are several highly common patterns for such logic, which in practice may be ve...
Implement property hooks as described?
Yes
42 Votes (95%)
No
2 Votes (5%)
PDO driver specific sub-classes
PDO is a generic database class. Some of the databases it supports have functionality that is specific to that database. For example, when connected to an SQLit...
PDO driver specific subclasses
Yes
23 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)