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Pipe Assignment Operator
PHP 8.5 introduced the pipe operator (|>), enabling functional-style transformation chains. A common pattern is piping a variable through transformations and as...
Implement the pipe assignment operator as outlined in the RFC?
Yes
14 Votes (42%)
No
12 Votes (36%)
Abstain
7 Votes (21%)
__exists(), a magic method for distinguishing "missing" from "set to null"
PHP's __isset() magic method has a structural ambiguity: it returns one bit but is asked two
questions (does it exist? and is it non-null?). The language constr...
Add __exists() magic method?
Yes
2 Votes (9%)
No
13 Votes (59%)
Abstain
7 Votes (32%)
Bound-Erased Generic Types
This RFC adds generic type syntax to PHP. Classes, interfaces, traits,
functions, methods, closures, and arrow functions can declare type
parameters; those para...
Introduce bound-erased generics as outlined in the RFC?
Yes
7 Votes (19%)
No
19 Votes (53%)
Abstain
10 Votes (28%)
Variance marker syntax
+T / -T (Hack, Scala)
2 Votes (8%)
in T / out T (C#, Kotlin)
24 Votes (92%)
array_path_get and array_path_exists functions
In PHP applications, it is very common to work with deeply nested arrays, especially when dealing with configuration data, decoded JSON payloads, request data, ...
Implement array_path_get and array_path_exists functions as outlined in the RFC?
Yes
1 Votes (4%)
No
17 Votes (71%)
Abstain
6 Votes (25%)
Remove the links to X.com from PHP.net
Yes
27 Votes (57%)
No
17 Votes (36%)
Abstain
3 Votes (6%)
array_only_keys() and array_except_keys()
Working with arrays often requires selecting or excluding a subset of keys. Many frameworks provide helper functions like array_only_keys() and array_except_key...
Add array_only_keys() and array_except_keys()
Yes
2 Votes (10%)
No
9 Votes (45%)
Abstain
9 Votes (45%)
Allow Reassignment of Promoted Readonly Properties in Constructor
Readonly properties and Constructor Property Promotion (CPP) don't mix well: any post-processing forces opting out of CPP.
Allow Reassignment of Promoted Readonly Properties in Constructor?
Yes
11 Votes (41%)
No
10 Votes (37%)
Abstain
6 Votes (22%)
Prefix and Suffix Functions
In PHP applications, its extremely common to normalize strings by conditionally adding, removing, or replacing a prefix or suffix. Today, developers typically i...
Implement prefix and suffix functions as outlined in the RFC?
Yes
11 Votes (42%)
No
8 Votes (31%)
Abstain
7 Votes (27%)
Should the $subject parameter be the first or the last parameter in the _replace functions?
First
7 Votes (29%)
Last
16 Votes (67%)
Abstain
1 Votes (4%)
let construct (Block Scoping)
This RFC proposes the introduction of the let() construct, a new language construct for managing lifetimes of variables. It allows developers to define a block ...
Add the let construct for block-scoping?
Yes
13 Votes (39%)
No
15 Votes (45%)
Abstain
5 Votes (15%)
Create "split" as an alias to "explode"
PHP has the concept of alias functions, where a function can have more than one name. Here are some examples of aliases:
Create a new split alias for the explode function?
Yes
3 Votes (9%)
No
28 Votes (80%)
Abstain
4 Votes (11%)
str_icontains
PHP 8.0 introduced the str_contains function, which provides a clear and concise way to determine if a string contains a given substring. This was a significant...
str_icontains
Yes
6 Votes (35%)
No
11 Votes (65%)
Deprecate type juggling to and from bool type within the function type juggling context
PHP has a few type juggling contexts, which are described on the
Type Juggling
documentation page.
Currently, there are 6:
Accept Deprecate type juggling to and from bool type within the function type juggling context RFC?
Yes
10 Votes (48%)
No
11 Votes (52%)
Single-Expression functions
This RFC proposes an alternative syntax for single-expression functions using the => operator instead of curly braces and explicit return statements.
Implement Single Expression Functions as outlined in the RFC?
Yes
6 Votes (25%)
No
18 Votes (75%)
Never Parameters (v2)
For a use case, and the inspiration for this RFC, consider the case of the BackedEnum interface that was added in PHP 8.1. It is defined as:
Allow never parameters
Yes
3 Votes (12%)
No
23 Votes (88%)
Nested Classes
Nested classes allow the definition of one class within another, enabling tighter encapsulation and better organization of related logic. This feature naturally...
Nested Classes
Yes
2 Votes (9%)
No
20 Votes (91%)
Optional Interfaces
PHP's implements keyword allows classes to declare that they implement one or more interfaces. This mechanism is strict: the specified interfaces must exist at ...
Add the optional interfaces feature?
Yes
15 Votes (44%)
No
19 Votes (56%)
Multibyte for levenshtein, mb_levenshtein function
Multibyte levenshtein distances have feature requests in the past. Therefore, we would like to create the mb_levenshtein function to implement this.
Add mb_levenshtein function
Yes
1 Votes (17%)
No
5 Votes (83%)
Readonly hooks
Support for hooks on readonly properties was omitted from the original RFC, primarily to minimize complexity as there were questions around when it was safe to ...
Approve backed readonly get hooks?
Yes
5 Votes (19%)
No
21 Votes (81%)
Approve backed readonly set hooks?
Yes
13 Votes (59%)
No
9 Votes (41%)
Static class
A static class is a class that cannot be instantiated, and whose members (properties and methods) are all static. Implicit static classes can be created today, ...
Implement static classes as described?
Yes
11 Votes (35%)
No
20 Votes (65%)
Final by default anonymous classes
This RFC proposes to make anonymous classes final by default.
Make final anonymous classes final by default?
Yes
21 Votes (60%)
No
14 Votes (40%)
Add an optional open keyword for anonymous classes?
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
30 Votes (100%)
Final anonymous classes
This RFC proposes to add support for final anonymous classes.
Add support for final anonymous classes?
Yes
8 Votes (33%)
No
16 Votes (67%)
Change the edge case of round()
round() can specify the operating mode when edge case values such as HALF_UP and HALF_DOWN are passed. For example, 0.285 is internally 0.28499999999999998. Sh...
Change the edge case of round()
Yes
7 Votes (47%)
No
8 Votes (53%)
Rounding Integers as int
PHP contains several build-in rounding functions round, ceil, floor and number_format.
Rounding Integers as int
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
18 Votes (100%)
Support optional suffix parameter in tempnam
The tempnam function allows users to optionally specify a prefix to be prepended to the generated filenames.
Support optional suffix parameter in tempnam
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
11 Votes (100%)
PHP Technical Committee
The Open Source project that develops the PHP language and its reference implementation uses an RFC process to discuss
and vote on proposed changes. This was cr...
Introduce the PHP Technical Committee as defined in this RFC
Yes
10 Votes (32%)
No
21 Votes (68%)
include cleanup
The PHP code base has grown over more than 2 decades, which leaves some room for code cleanups. While attempting to fix several crash bugs in the JIT, I found t...
Should #include directives be cleaned up?
Yes
11 Votes (52%)
No
10 Votes (48%)
Is it allowed to document an #include line with a code comment?
Yes
1 Votes (10%)
No
9 Votes (90%)
Is it allowed to forward-declare structs/unions/typedefs?
Yes
1 Votes (13%)
No
7 Votes (88%)
Is it allowed to split a large header to reduce dependencies?
Yes
12 Votes (67%)
No
6 Votes (33%)
Destructuring Coalesce
This RFC proposes adding an operator for default values in destructuring assignments.
Add a destructuring coalesce feature as described?
Yes
14 Votes (56%)
No
11 Votes (44%)
Asymmetric Visibility
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...
Include asymmetric visibility?
Yes
14 Votes (54%)
No
12 Votes (46%)
If voting no, why?
Dislike feature itself
6 Votes (50%)
Syntax details
4 Votes (33%)
Other (specify below)
2 Votes (17%)
Interface Default Methods
Over time, authors sometimes want to add methods to an interface. Today, this causes large breakages to every implementor. This RFC proposes a way to reduce the...
Interface Default Methods
Yes
15 Votes (47%)
No
17 Votes (53%)
New Curl URL API
Since version 7.62.0 of libcurl, 1 the library features a brand new URL API 2 that can be used to parse and generate URLs, using libcurls own parser. One of the...
Add proposed new functional Curl URL API
Yes
10 Votes (42%)
No
14 Votes (58%)
Short Closures 2.0
Anonymous functions in PHP can be verbose, in part due to the need to manually import used variables. This makes code using simple closures hard to read and und...
Add Short Closures as described in PHP 8.2?
Yes
27 Votes (63%)
No
16 Votes (37%)
Create a global login system for php.net
Currently there are different login systems all over php.net:
1.1 Global login system
Yes
4 Votes (22%)
No
14 Votes (78%)
1.2 Type of global login system
Use oAuth provider GitHub
1 Votes (6%)
Use own system (hosted on php.net)
14 Votes (88%)
Use both
1 Votes (6%)
2.1 www.php.net use preferences
Yes, only allow setting settings with account
0 Votes (0%)
Yes, but still allow the old system with saving settings in cookies
12 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
2.2 www.php.net user contributed notes
Yes, only allow setting notes with account
2 Votes (17%)
Yes, but still allow the old system
1 Votes (8%)
No
9 Votes (75%)
3.1 bugs.php.net login
Yes
3 Votes (27%)
No
8 Votes (73%)
4.1 edit.php.net login
Yes
1 Votes (9%)
Yes, but still allow anonymous login
2 Votes (18%)
Keep old login system completely
8 Votes (73%)
5.1 pecl.php.net login and pear.php.net login
Yes
3 Votes (27%)
No
8 Votes (73%)
7.1 wiki.php.net
Yes, fully migrate
4 Votes (33%)
Yes, but still allow old login system
0 Votes (0%)
No
8 Votes (67%)
Stricter implicit boolean coercions
When not using strict_types in PHP, scalar type coercions have become less lossy/surprising in the last years - non-number-strings cannot be passed to an int ty...
Accept Stricter implicit boolean coercions RFC as proposed?
Yes
3 Votes (18%)
No
14 Votes (82%)
Add array_group function
This RFC is to implement a new function to PHP that upgrades the functionality of array_column to group similar results that share the same index_key into a mul...
Add array_group function to PHP
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
19 Votes (100%)
Move to RNG functions into ext/random
This is due to the historical background, starting with lcg.c / php_lcg.h, the first implementation of the linear congruential generator (LCG), followed by rand...
User Defined Operator Overloads
Operator overloading in PHP is currently supported within the engine for C code, and has well engineered designs built into the structures for objects and class...
Adopt user defined operator overloads as described?
Yes
21 Votes (47%)
No
24 Votes (53%)
Nullable Intersection types
Intersection types as currently accepted for PHP 8.1 are not nullable. This RFC proposes to make them so.
Make intersection types nullable
Yes
12 Votes (32%)
No
26 Votes (68%)
Preferred syntax
"?" prefix
6 Votes (17%)
"|null" suffix
29 Votes (83%)
Intersections should be
without brackets around
1 Votes (3%)
with brackets around
27 Votes (77%)
allow both styles
7 Votes (20%)
json_encode indentation
Programs can serialize data to JSON using the json_encode function. The function is widely used for generating JSON responses or payload over HTTP. Currently, i...
Add support for changing the JSON indentation amount?
Yes
7 Votes (25%)
No
21 Votes (75%)
Allow static properties in enums
Although enums are immutable objects, it is often useful to have functions or methods that operate on enum instances. In many cases, it would make sense to decl...
Allow static properties in enums
Yes
8 Votes (32%)
No
17 Votes (68%)
Sealed Classes
The purpose of inheritance is code reuse, for when you have a class that shares common functionality, and you want others to be
able to extend it and make use o...
Accept sealed classes RFC?
Yes
16 Votes (59%)
No
11 Votes (41%)
Which syntax option do you prefer?
`sealed` + `permits`
12 Votes (44%)
`permits` only
15 Votes (56%)
`for`
0 Votes (0%)
ImmutableIterable (immutable, rewindable, memory-efficient, allows any key&repeating keys)
Currently, PHP does not provide a built-in way to store the state of an arbitrary iterable for reuse later (when the iterable has arbitrary keys, or when keys m...
Add ImmutableIterable to core
Yes
2 Votes (18%)
No
9 Votes (82%)
Reasons for voting against the ImmutableIterable RFC
Object to the namespace choice
1 Votes (7%)
Object to the name
5 Votes (33%)
Object to the implementation
3 Votes (20%)
Don't see a use case
0 Votes (0%)
Other
6 Votes (40%)
var_representation() : readable alternative to var_export()
var_export() is a function that gets structured information about the given variable. It is similar to var_dump() with one exception: the returned representatio...
Add var_representation($value, int $flags=0): string to php?
Yes
9 Votes (47%)
No
10 Votes (53%)
Object scoped RNG Implementations.
PHP currently implements an RNG based on the Mersenne Twister, which can be used with mt_srand() and mt_rand().
Add object-scoped RNG
Yes
3 Votes (14%)
No
19 Votes (86%)
Dump results of expressions in `php -a`
Many REPLs (Read-Eval-Print Loops) for other programming languages that I'm familiar with print a (possibly truncated) representation of the result of expressio...
Dump results of expressions in `php -a` as described in this RFC
Yes
11 Votes (65%)
No
6 Votes (35%)
Direct execution opcode file without php source code file
The current OPCache cannot get rid of the source file to execute the opcode file. The path will allow OPCache direct execution opcode file without php source co...
Add OPCache direct execution opcode without source file
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
35 Votes (100%)
Short Functions
Short lambdas / arrow functions offer a convenient, compact way to write simple closures as a single expression. This RFC offers the same convenience for named...
Include short-function syntax in PHP
Yes
16 Votes (47%)
No
18 Votes (53%)
PHP\iterable\any() and all() on iterables
The primitives any() and all() are a common part of many programming languages and help in avoiding verbosity or unnecessary abstractions.
Add PHP\iterable\any() and all() to PHP?
Yes
11 Votes (48%)
No
12 Votes (52%)
Names to use: any()/all() or any_value()/all_values()
any()/all()
14 Votes (82%)
any_value()/all_values()
3 Votes (18%)
Reasons for voting against this RFC
Too small in scope
5 Votes (23%)
Object to the choice of namespace
4 Votes (18%)
Prefer the global namespace
3 Votes (14%)
Confused about the implementation
1 Votes (5%)
Prefer userland solutions
3 Votes (14%)
Other
1 Votes (5%)
Voted for this RFC
5 Votes (23%)
StackFrame class
The debug_backtrace() function currently returns stack trace frames as an array of arrays with information about the file, line, class, type, object, args and f...
Add object-based debug_backtrace() alternative?
Yes
14 Votes (50%)
No
14 Votes (50%)
Replace object-based trace for Throwable::getTrace()?
Yes
6 Votes (24%)
No
19 Votes (76%)
Make constructors and destructors return void
At the moment, constructors and destructors can return values. However, these magic methods are supposed to be void (according to the documentation) and should ...
Make constructors/destructors return void?
Yes
34 Votes (61%)
No
22 Votes (39%)
Allow void return type on constructors/destructors?
Yes
27 Votes (52%)
No
25 Votes (48%)
Opcache optimization without any caching
Currently, it isn't possible to enable optimizations without enabling caching.
They should be orthogonal features - it's already possible to cache without
optim...
Add opcache.allow_cache ini setting to support opcode optimization without caching
Yes
10 Votes (43%)
No
13 Votes (57%)
If you voted no on opcache.allow_cache, why?
1
8 Votes (100%)
2
0 Votes (0%)
3
0 Votes (0%)
4
0 Votes (0%)
I would be interested in moving opcode optimizations into core
Yes
14 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Partial Function Application
This proposal defines a syntax for partial function application in PHP. It has been designed to provide a maximum of functionality with a minimum of new syntax...
Add partial function application PHP
Yes
29 Votes (59%)
No
20 Votes (41%)
Pipe Operator v2
Code like the following is quite common in procedural code:
Pipe Operator
Yes
11 Votes (39%)
No
17 Votes (61%)
Adopt this policy for future symbols defined by php-src and extension code?
Yes
13 Votes (43%)
No
17 Votes (57%)
Would you like to add match expressions to the language?
Yes
6 Votes (18%)
No
28 Votes (82%)
Should the semicolon for match in statement form be optional?
Yes
3 Votes (13%)
No
20 Votes (87%)
Should we allow dropping (true) condition?
Yes
16 Votes (80%)
No
4 Votes (20%)
If you voted no, why?
1
0 Votes (0%)
2
10 Votes (43%)
3
0 Votes (0%)
4
1 Votes (4%)
5
0 Votes (0%)
6
3 Votes (13%)
7
0 Votes (0%)
8
9 Votes (39%)
Rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON
The T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM token representing the :: characters sequence is often a source of confusion the first time it is encountered.
Rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON?
Yes
44 Votes (59%)
No
30 Votes (41%)
PHP Namespace in core
The PHP project has reserved the right to use the \PHP namespace but has never acted upon starting to use it. We therefore propose that core symbols which canno...
Accept PHP namespace in core RFC?
Yes
19 Votes (44%)
No
24 Votes (56%)
Type casting in array destructuring expressions
Adds the possibility to cast values while using array or list destructuring expressions.
Add type casting in array destructuring expressions
yes
6 Votes (19%)
no
26 Votes (81%)
Choose one or more of the suggested future scopes in which you are interested
reference assignment casts
0 Votes (0%)
strict casts
16 Votes (27%)
nullable casts
19 Votes (32%)
type checks in array destructuring expressions
25 Votes (42%)
none
0 Votes (0%)
Would you like to add support for COPA?
Yes
2 Votes (4%)
No
48 Votes (96%)
If you voted no, what was the main reason?
I voted yes!
0 Votes (0%)
I don’t find the feature useful
25 Votes (71%)
I don’t like the syntax
3 Votes (9%)
I prefer a more comprehensive solution to this problem
6 Votes (17%)
I prefer a narrower solution to this problem
0 Votes (0%)
This breaks backwards compatibility
0 Votes (0%)
This will have negative implications for future language evolution
0 Votes (0%)
This will be a nightmare to implement and maintain
0 Votes (0%)
I prefer not to say
1 Votes (3%)
If you did not like the proposed syntax, which alternative would you prefer?
A (the proposed one)
0 Votes (0%)
B
1 Votes (3%)
C
0 Votes (0%)
D
0 Votes (0%)
E
0 Votes (0%)
F
0 Votes (0%)
Irrelevant
29 Votes (97%)
Server-Side Request and Response Objects
This RFC proposes an object-oriented approach around request and response functionality already existing in PHP, in order to reduce the global mutable state pro...
Adopt Server-Side Request and Response Objects?
Yes
11 Votes (24%)
No
35 Votes (76%)
Write-Once Properties
This RFC proposes to add support for a new property modifier that would allow properties to be initialized, but not modified afterwards. This feature would be u...
Do you want to add support for write-once properties?
Yes
23 Votes (50%)
No
23 Votes (50%)
Which keyword to use?
immutable
2 Votes (5%)
locked
1 Votes (2%)
writeonce
7 Votes (16%)
readonly
34 Votes (77%)
Userspace operator overloading
At the moment expressions like $a + $b or $a * 2 are only valid if $a and $b are scalar types like int or float. However, in many other programming languages li...
Add userspace operator overloading as described?
Yes
38 Votes (58%)
No
28 Votes (42%)
declare(function_and_const_lookup='global')
When calling a function or using a constant that isn't fully qualified from a namespace (other than the global namespace),
PHP will check these two locations in...
Support declare(function_and_const_lookup=...)
Yes
2 Votes (5%)
No
35 Votes (95%)
Severity of redundant uses of global functions/constants
Warning
4 Votes (19%)
Fatal Error
10 Votes (48%)
Allow and don't warn
7 Votes (33%)
Deprecate Backtick Operator (V2)
PHP contains multiple functions for executing system commands from within a PHP script as detailed in the Program execution functions section of the manual (htt...
Deprecate backtick operator in PHP 8.0?
Yes
11 Votes (30%)
No
26 Votes (70%)
Object Initializer
PHP doesn't have a convenient literal syntax for creating an object and initializing properties. This makes creating objects and initializing their state quite ...
Accept object initializer?
Yes
3 Votes (10%)
No
26 Votes (90%)
Choose between two tokens as an assign operator in object initializer block?
=
16 Votes (89%)
=>
2 Votes (11%)
Deprecate short open tags, again
In addition to
Deprecate and remove short open tags as proposed?
Yes
30 Votes (56%)
No
24 Votes (44%)
Making stdClass iterable
By far the most common usage of stdClass is (as the manual defines) Created by typecasting to object, or from the result of a call to 'json_decode()' using the ...
Making stdClass iterable
Yes
7 Votes (22%)
No
25 Votes (78%)
User-defined object comparison
This RFC builds on the motivation of previous discussions with a new proposal for the ability to override the default behaviour of object comparison that was in...
Support user-defined object comparison?
Yes
5 Votes (29%)
No
12 Votes (71%)
iterable_to_array() and iterable_count()
PHP 7.1 added an iterable pseudo-type which is a union of array and Traversable.
Although iterable is very useful, sometimes it's necessary to convert it to an ...
Add iterable_to_array()?
Yes
8 Votes (25%)
No
24 Votes (75%)
Add iterable_count()?
Yes
2 Votes (5%)
No
35 Votes (95%)
Class Friendship
Class Friendship allows a class to be better encapsulated by granting per-class access to protected members. Class Friendship is an explicit and concise express...
Support Class Friendship?
Yes
6 Votes (18%)
No
27 Votes (82%)
Implement missing SQLite feature "openBlob" in PDO
The SQLite driver of PDO is missing some features provided by the SQLite3 extension, namely openBlob which allows to access a stored blob as a stream/file point...
Implement sqliteOpenBlob in PDO?
Yes
7 Votes (50%)
No
7 Votes (50%)
Unary null coalescing operator
PHP 7.0 introduced the Null Coalescing Operator (??), which provides a convenient, more concise alternative to isset() or an explicit NULL check when retrieving...
Accept and merge unary null coalescing operator for PHP 7.2?
Yes
4 Votes (25%)
No
12 Votes (75%)
Doxygen
Proposal to adopt the Doxygen documentation style for the C sources of PHP
Document with Doxygen?
Yes
11 Votes (41%)
No
16 Votes (59%)
UUID
Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs, also known as Globally Unique Identifiers [GUIDs]) are 128 bit integers that guarantee uniqueness across space and time. ...
Add UUID value object to PHP standard module?
Yes
17 Votes (44%)
No
22 Votes (56%)
Throwable error code's type generalization
Currently Exception::$code, Error::$code and Throwable::getCode() are said to be int only, but this is actually violated by PHP itself, specifically by the PDO ...
Accept Throwables error code generalization?
Yes
13 Votes (54%)
No
11 Votes (46%)
Binary String Deprecation
In version 5.2.1, the b prefix and the (binary) cast were introduced for forward compatibility with the PHP-6 project. However, that project never came to be an...
Binary String Deprecation
Yes
19 Votes (59%)
No
13 Votes (41%)
User defined session serializer
Currently, only C module can add additional session data serializer. With user defined session data serializer, users can
Add user defined session serializer
Yes
9 Votes (47%)
No
10 Votes (53%)
Add validation functions to filter module
Input data validation is the most important security measure in software security.
Add validation functions to filter module
Yes
1 Votes (7%)
No
14 Votes (93%)
Target version
7.1.0
1 Votes (17%)
7.2.0
5 Votes (83%)
Add str_starts_with(), str_ends_with() and related functions
PHP does not contain functions to test if a string begins or ends with a certain substring. This is currently possible using several other functions, but adding...
Do you want str_starts_with, str_starts_with_ci, str_ends_with, and str_ends_with_ci functions in PHP 7.4?
yes
27 Votes (57%)
no
20 Votes (43%)
Do you want mb_str_starts_with, mb_str_starts_with_ci, mb_str_ends_with, and mb_str_ends_with_ci functions in PHP 7.4?
yes
4 Votes (10%)
no
37 Votes (90%)
New operator (short tag) for context-dependent escaping
This RFC proposes the addition of new operator for context-dependent escaping. This operator is intended mainly for HTML escaping but it allows to add handlers ...
Add new operator (short tag) for context-dependent escaping to next PHP 7.x?
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
28 Votes (100%)
Is default handler required, with a possibility to fully unregister it?
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
14 Votes (100%)
Is it needed to wrap the functions into static class?
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
13 Votes (100%)
Is the comma suitable as a separation sign?
Yes
10 Votes (77%)
No
3 Votes (23%)
Enable session.use_strict_mode by default
Due to HTTP cookie implementation, it is easy to create unchangeable/undeletable cookies via JavaScript injections. Single JavaScript injection vulnerability or...
Enable session.use_strict_mode by default
Yes
4 Votes (50%)
No
4 Votes (50%)
var_info
Debug, error, and exception messages in PHP often contain type information about variables that did not satisfy a defined validation constraint. The idiomatic w...
Accept var_info function?
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
25 Votes (100%)
var_type
The idiomatic way to retrieve type information of a variable in PHP is via the gettype() function. This function suffers from upholding backwards compatibility ...
Accept var_type function?
Yes
4 Votes (21%)
No
15 Votes (79%)
Accept type constants?
Yes
1 Votes (5%)
No
21 Votes (95%)
ReflectionType Improvements
For PHP 7.0 the ReflectionType API was introduced in conjunction with return types. Its minimal API was intended to be the base for future improvements; this R...
Accept ReflectionType Improvements RFC?
Yes
5 Votes (38%)
No
8 Votes (62%)
Attributes
Attributes (or annotations) are a form of syntactic metadata that can be added to language classes, functions, etc. PHP offers only a single form of such metada...
Accept PHP Attributes? (2/3+1 majority required)
Yes
14 Votes (39%)
No
22 Votes (61%)
What may be used as attribute value? (simple majority wins)
valid PHP expression (internally represented as AST)
11 Votes (39%)
valid PHP constant (number or string)
17 Votes (61%)
Functional Interfaces
A functional interface is an interface which declares only one abstract method, a familiar example is Countable:
Accept functional interfaces? (2/3+1 majority required)
Yes
7 Votes (24%)
No
22 Votes (76%)
Typed Properties
Typed Properties allow for an optional keyword in the definition, after the visibility scope, which contains the type the property should allow.
Merge typed properties ?
Yes
34 Votes (60%)
No
23 Votes (40%)
"var" Deprecation
This RFC proposes that var be deprecated in PHP 7.1 (in favor of public) and its functionality removed in PHP 8.0.
Deprecate `var` in 7.1 and remove it from 8.0?
Yes
31 Votes (57%)
No
23 Votes (43%)
Add PHP Engine Identifier Constant
Due to the desire to maintain compatibility with PHP, alternative runtimes such as HHVM set the PHP_VERSION constant to something like 5.6.0-hhvm (utilizing the...
Add PHP_ENGINE constant
Yes
8 Votes (47%)
No
9 Votes (53%)
Add PHP_(*_)ENGINE(_ID) constants
Yes
3 Votes (18%)
No
14 Votes (82%)
Number Format Separator
Long numerical literals can be a source of poor readability in code. Take the following examples:
Include a Digit Separator into PHP
Yes
20 Votes (53%)
No
18 Votes (47%)
Callable Prototypes
This RFC proposes an evolution of the callable type, scoped to argument lists. This should allow more detailed declarations
of callable type declarations - incl...
Accept callable prototypes?
Yes
18 Votes (49%)
No
19 Votes (51%)
JSON numeric as string
JSON is a data format that is often used for data exchange between different platforms. These platforms can have different number representation which might lea...
Include JSON_FLOAT_TO_STRING for decoding?
Yes
1 Votes (17%)
No
5 Votes (83%)
Include JSON_FLOAT_TO_STRING for encoding?
Yes
1 Votes (17%)
No
5 Votes (83%)
Include JSON_INT_TO_STRING for decoding?
Yes
1 Votes (17%)
No
5 Votes (83%)
Include JSON_INT_TO_STRING for encoding?
Yes
1 Votes (20%)
No
4 Votes (80%)
PHP version used for the included constant
PHP 5.6
1 Votes (17%)
PHP 7.0
0 Votes (0%)
PHP 7.1
5 Votes (83%)
In Operator
This RFC adds a new in operator which simplifies contains checks for strings and arrays. The in operator makes these checks way more readable and lowers the cog...
Introduce the in operator?
Yes
21 Votes (45%)
No
26 Votes (55%)
Allow error_handler callback parameters to be passed by reference
In userland it is sometimes necessary to extend PHP's notices/warnings with
additional information (e.g. username from session, request-uri, http-host, stack tr...
Allow error_handler callback parameters to be passed by reference
Allow $errstr parameter to be passed by reference
3 Votes (15%)
Allow $errno, $errstr, $errfile, $fileno parameter to be passed by reference
1 Votes (5%)
No, Allow none of the parameter be a reference parameter
16 Votes (80%)
coercive_sth
Yes
27 Votes (38%)
No
44 Votes (62%)
Make empty() a Variadic
This RFC aims make empty() have a variable arity.
Make empty() a Variadic
Yes
26 Votes (50%)
No
26 Votes (50%)
Union Types
PHP has type declarations which can be associated with function parameters or return values. These declarations perform two useful roles:
Merge union types
Yes
11 Votes (38%)
No
18 Votes (62%)
Replace ?QuestionMarkNullables by union | null
Yes
5 Votes (19%)
No
21 Votes (81%)
Include true/false types
Yes
5 Votes (18%)
No
23 Votes (82%)
Skipping optional parameters for functions
In PHP, it is very common for function is to have many optional arguments, like this:
Should PHP 7 support parameter skipping as described in this RFC?
Yes
17 Votes (39%)
No
27 Votes (61%)
PHP 5.7
There is going to be a new major release of PHP, PHP 7, and we have agreed on a timeline for it. Because it is a major release that breaks backwards-compatibili...
Accept the PHP 5.7 RFC?
Yes
14 Votes (42%)
No
19 Votes (58%)
Static classes
Please understand only one of the following proposals can be accepted, not both.
They're explained together because the address the same issue.
Static classes
Yes, as "static class"
5 Votes (29%)
Yes, as "abstract final class"
0 Votes (0%)
No
12 Votes (71%)
Default constructors
This RFC proposes to introduce the concept of default constructors into PHP. The meaning of it is that whatever is the parent class, child class can always call...
Should PHP 7 have default constructor semantics as described in this proposal?
Yes
27 Votes (57%)
No
20 Votes (43%)
Objects as hash keys
In PHP array keys can be only represented as numbers and strings. However, there already are several classes that represent different kinds of numbers (such as ...
Should we support using objects as keys as described in this proposal?
Yes, via method __hash
6 Votes (20%)
Yes, via method __toKey
0 Votes (0%)
No
24 Votes (80%)
Safe Casting Functions
Currently, PHP only provides one means of type conversion: explicit casts. These casts never fail or emit errors, making them dangerous to use, as when passed g...
Should the Safe Casting Functions RFC be accepted, and the patch merged into master?
Yes
5 Votes (24%)
No
16 Votes (76%)
Access to aliases definition by reflection
PHP 5.3 brought namespaces and aliasing/importing by use operator. Aliases are expanded to FQN (Fully Qualified Name) in the compile-time phase and user-land co...
Access to aliases definition by reflection
Yes
1 Votes (9%)
No
10 Votes (91%)
loop + or control structure
It is often desirable to perform a set of actions if the conditions to enter a loop are not met. This can require a significant amount of boilerplate code if th...
Loop + or control structure in PHP 7
Yes
4 Votes (27%)
No
11 Votes (73%)
Add pecl_http to the core?
Yes, enabled by default
3 Votes (9%)
Yes, disabled by default
6 Votes (19%)
No
23 Votes (72%)
Namespace prefix for pecl_http
http
8 Votes (57%)
php\http
6 Votes (43%)
Bare Name Array Literal
At present, arrays are a tad cumbersome to define. String keys must be quoted and followed by a double arrow, then the element ends with a comma:
Merge bare name array literal into master/PHP 5.7?
Yes
3 Votes (18%)
No
14 Votes (82%)
Bare Name Array Dereference
The current array dereferencing syntax for string keys is somewhat cumbersome:
Merge array dereference into master/PHP 5.7?
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
15 Votes (100%)
Improve HTML escape
HTML escape can be improved by escaping all dangerous chars. HTML escape can be improved by escaping , , ', & and /.
Add / escape and Make ENT_QUOTES default
Yes
4 Votes (29%)
No
10 Votes (71%)
Alternative implementation of mbstring using ICU
This RFC discusses the alternative implementation of mbstring extension that in turn uses ICU instead of libmbfl.
Include mbstring-ng for PHP-5.6 as EXPERIMENTAL module
Yes
1 Votes (9%)
No
10 Votes (91%)
Multibyte Char Handling
For example, addslashes()/stripslashes() has vulnerability that allows PHP script execution and DoS under certain environment via char encoding based attack. Co...
Add required mb_*() functions to fix vulnerability
Yes
2 Votes (17%)
No
10 Votes (83%)
Array Of
This RFC proposes a syntax to add to improve type-hinting, allowing an array of that hinted type to be passed as an argument, thus improving readability of code...
Array Of Type Hinting
Yes
4 Votes (20%)
No
16 Votes (80%)
Alphanumeric Decrement
This will add support for decrementing alphanumeric strings (ab, for example) to complement the existing incrementing behaviour.
Alphanumeric Decrement
Yes
0 Votes (0%)
No
21 Votes (100%)
64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer in zval
Current PHP zval datatype implementation uses long datatype to handle signed integer and int datatype to handle string length. The most 64 bit capable platforms...
Merge this RFC into PHP-5.6 having regard to Vote 2 and 3
Yes
15 Votes (43%)
No
20 Votes (57%)
Keep the old macro names for LONG vs. INT, STRLEN vs. STRSIZE, etc.
Yes
13 Votes (43%)
No
17 Votes (57%)
Keep zpp specs l, L, s, p as aliases to i, I, S, P
Yes
15 Votes (47%)
No
17 Votes (53%)
Exceptions in the engine
This RFC proposes to allow the use of exceptions in the engine and to allow the replacement of existing fatal or recoverable fatal errors with exceptions.
Implement in PHP 5.6?
Yes
24 Votes (52%)
Yes, without E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR changes
1 Votes (2%)
No
21 Votes (46%)
Automatic Property Initialization
When writing constructors, most constructor bodies usually just assign passed arguments to some properties. While technically not a problem, it is somewhat tedi...
Automatic Property Initialization
Yes
7 Votes (39%)
No
11 Votes (61%)
Extended keyword support
This RFC aims to remove some restrictions which are due to the fact that keywords are not included in T_STRING (especially for class const, method and class nam...
Should the extended keyword support patch be merged into master?
Yes
5 Votes (31%)
No
11 Votes (69%)
instance counter
Coming to Object-Orientated Programming, PHP offers a variety of possibilities to obtain information about classes and their instances (objects). In this regard...
Should this RFC be implemented?
Yes
1 Votes (7%)
No
14 Votes (93%)
Trailing comma function args
PHP has long supported trailing commas in array declarations like so:
Should the current optional trailing comma implementation be merged
Yes
15 Votes (43%)
No
20 Votes (57%)
Alternative typehinting syntax for accessors
This RFC proposes a different typehinting syntax for the property accessors proposal. The proposed syntax places the typehint before the property name rather th...
Should the proposed typehinting syntax be used instead of the current one?
Yes
3 Votes (20%)
No
12 Votes (80%)
array_part
This RFC proposes a new array function that can extract multidimensional slices for arrays.
Should the current array_part() implementation be merged
Yes
2 Votes (11%)
No
17 Votes (89%)
Class Metadata
Many languages currently support metadata information. This RFC exposes an idea about how can it be implemented in PHP, providing a powerful tool that many appl...
SplClassLoader
PHP 5 introduced the concept of autoloading classes.
getEntropy feature request
This isn't done yet, don't read it yet. please?
ifsetor()
Frequently PHP developers need to initialize some variable that is passed in via the outside to some value. This leads to repeated code, that is needlessly pron...
Is_Literal
Add the function is_literal(), a lightweight and effective way to identify if a string was written by a developer, removing the risk of a variable containing an...
is_literal
Yes
10 Votes (30%)
No
23 Votes (70%)
Introduce script only include/require
include()/require() is source of file/script inclusion for a long time. Script inclusion is extremely severe security breach and PHP is too weak against script ...
Introduce script inclusion protection?
Yes
4 Votes (14%)
No
24 Votes (86%)
Precise Session Management
This proposal fixes session management design issue. Session ID management requires more precise management. Otherwise,
Precise Session Data Management
Yes
15 Votes (58%)
No
11 Votes (42%)
Accept PHP Accessors for 5.5?
Yes
34 Votes (61%)
No
22 Votes (39%)
Improve hash_hkdf() parameter order and handling
Even cryptographic hashes have secret information disclosure/analysis risks with string concatenations. For example, following code is weak (could be more vuln...
Fix hash_hkdf() signature and behavior
Yes
1 Votes (7%)
No
14 Votes (93%)