What's Changed in PHP 8.2

In this video, Scott discusses what new features are being added to PHP in the 8.2 release and outlines the deprecations and breaking changes

00:00 Intro
00:59 Warnings
01:33 New Features
01:37 Readonly Classes
01:57 Disjunctive Normal Form Types
02:35 Constants in Traits
02:49 Redacted Parameters in Backtraces
02:32 Fetch Properties of Enums in Const Expressions
03:49 null, true, and false Stand Alone Types
03:58 Cloudways
05:14 Deprecated Functions/Features
05:24 Deprecate dynamic properties
05:54 Deprecated utf8_encode and utf8_decode
06:14 Deprecate `${}` string interpolation
06:36 Breaking changes
06:34 DateTime Return Types
07:03 Locale-insensitive strtolower() and strtoupper()
07:29 Outro

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[kneekoo]

The sound is cut between the video cuts, with words either in part or completely missing - like 5:14. Not a tragedy, just something I hope won't be an issue in the future.

[LucasBustamante]

I love PHP, but recently there have been some mess going on with SPL file APIs, such as SplFileObject::fgets that behaves differently depending on the PHP version. This makes it very hard for developers that develop applications that has to run under multiple PHP versions, such as WordPress plugin developers, that ship code on our client's infrastructures. Example 3v4l: GKCuj

[SyntaxSeed]

I hope you're right about the language stabilizing. I could use a few years of reduced upgrade burden. 😏

[cbbcbb]

Did PHP remove the requirement to prefix variable name with a dollar sign? If so, that would be great.

[guiller]

It would be nice if deprecating functions would not brake old code.

Something like a static class that would automatically find deprecated and replace them or give you the option to quickly finding them giving you the possible substitute.

I remember with PHP 5.5, the replacement for most deprecated was relatively easy to automate.

I mean, most people simply silent the warnings; but it would be nice to write clean code from the start.