🔮 PHP 8.5 Upgrade Features/Notes

[chrisblakley]

PHP Version Timeline: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
PHP Release Notes: https://php.watch/versions
Version Stats: https://stitcher.io/blog/php-version-stats-july-2024

PHP 8.5 Info & References

https://php.watch/versions/8.5
https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-85

• Release Date: November 2025
• Active Support Until November 2026
• Security Support Until November 2027

Initial Tasks

• Update /inc/data/php_timeline.json Nebula file

Projected Nebula Minimum Version Timeline

Active table will be moved here as it gets closer
#2234

Notable Features related to Nebula in PHP 8.5

• URL Parsing functionality
• PHP_BUILD_DATE constant could be used for dev info
• Fatal errors now provide a stack trace in error log files
• array_first() and array_last()
• Pipe operator
• OPcache is now mandatory (not a separate extension)

Pipe Operator example:

$result = "Hello World"
|> htmlentities(...)
|> str_split(...)
|> strtoupper(...);

[chrisblakley]

New URL parsing functionality:

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/url_parsing_api

$uri = new Uri\Rfc3986\Uri("https://%61pple:p%61ss@ex%61mple.com:433/foob%61r?%61bc=%61bc#%61bc");

echo $uri->getRawHost();                         // ex%61mple.com
echo $uri->getHost();                            // example.com

$uri = new Uri\Rfc3986\Uri("HTTPS://EXAMPLE.COM/foo/../bar/");
 
echo $uri->getRawScheme();                       // HTTPS
echo $uri->getScheme();                          // https

$uri = new Uri\Rfc3986\Uri("https://example.com/foo/");
var_dump($uri);

/*
object(Uri\Rfc3986\Uri)#1 (9) {
  ["scheme"]=>
  string(5) "https"
  ["userinfo"]=>
  NULL
  ["username"]=>
  NULL
  ["password"]=>
  NULL
  ["host"]=>
  string(11) "example.com"
  ["port"]=>
  NULL
  ["path"]=>
  string(5) "/foo/"
  ["query"]=>
  NULL
  ["fragment"]=>
  NULL
}
*/

Update the Nebula url_components() function in Utilities.php to use this native API for requests that it supports:

• all
• scheme
• port
• username
• password
• host
• path
• query
• fragment