RfcCodex
Notes on PHP RFCs, and topics that occur repeatedly on PHP internals (by Danack)
scalar_objects
Extension that adds support for method calls on primitive types in PHP (by nikic)
| RfcCodex | scalar_objects | |
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| 5 | 22 | |
| 206 | 1,125 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.0 | 2.8 | |
| 12 months ago | 6 months ago | |
| PHP | ||
| MIT License | MIT License |
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RfcCodex
Posts with mentions or reviews of RfcCodex.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-23.
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What is your #1 PHP feature request
Dan Ackroyd's RFC Codex has some good write-ups on commonly requested features.
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Should PHP9 standardize naming conventions throughout the language?
My notes on Standardise core library functions.
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Simple RFC ideas that could make it into PHP 8.1?
Also: https://github.com/Danack/RfcCodex/blob/master/method_overloading.md
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Type-constrained elements collection in PHP ?
These are called generics. PHP currently doesn't support them, but there is work being done towards them being added. There are a lot of complications that need to be figured out before they can be implemented. See https://github.com/PHPGenerics/php-generics-rfc/issues and https://github.com/Danack/RfcCodex/blob/master/generics.md.
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Maintainer of Swoole about the Fibers RFC: "I am afraid that fiber can only be used in the amphp framework and is of no value to other php projects."
And it's one of the reasons I think the rule "Don't volunteer other people for huge amounts of work" is appropriate.
scalar_objects
Posts with mentions or reviews of scalar_objects.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
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What I always dreamed of PHP 😎 (IMPORTANT!)
I know there are such experiments, but it's unlikely to become a part of the language any time soon :(
- What is your #1 PHP feature request (part 2)
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What is your #1 PHP feature request
Scalar objects has a prototype implementation since at least 2015: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects/issues/20
- Modern PHP features explained – PHP 8.0 and 8.1
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Alternatives to Magic Methods?
For the love of god yes please yes this 1000x. I'd like to throw in scalar objects too.
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Why does PHP not have object-oriented strings and arrays? Will it be added in a future version
Nikita Popov tried to solve the problem with this extension, but it never got wide support. The problem is that without users asking for this feature, Jetbrains and psalm/phpstan will not integrate it. But w/o their support, users cannot not even try the extension as everything will be shown as error.
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Should PHP9 standardize naming conventions throughout the language?
These as it would remove the need to even care about the old function names which would exist for B/C purposes. We'd then be able to use primitive types as objects with functions to do all their manipulation as needed.
- Extension that adds support for method calls on primitive types in PHP
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Which inconsistences of PHP annoy you the most?
It's been possible for quite a while but you have to enable a custom extension: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects and create an implementation of the class wrapper. I made one quite some time ago which is probably very incomplete: https://github.com/RikudouSage/scalar-objects.
- What third-party extension or library would you like to see included in php as default?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RfcCodex and scalar_objects you can also consider the following projects:
react-fiber - ReactPHP + ext-fiber
php-docker - Docker Official Image packaging for PHP
pecl-php-operator - Operator overloading for Objects
Rector - Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
varexporter - A powerful alternative to var_export(), which can export closures and objects without __set_state()
parallel - A succinct parallel concurrency API for PHP8
swow - Coroutine-based cross-platform concurrent I/O engine.
ext-ds - An extension providing efficient data structures for PHP 7
msphpsql - Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server
RfcCodex vs react-fiber
scalar_objects vs php-docker
RfcCodex vs pecl-php-operator
scalar_objects vs Rector
RfcCodex vs varexporter
scalar_objects vs varexporter
RfcCodex vs php-docker
scalar_objects vs pecl-php-operator
RfcCodex vs parallel
scalar_objects vs swow
scalar_objects vs ext-ds
scalar_objects vs msphpsql