php-src
Security backports for EOL versions of PHP. (by microsoft)
polyfill
PHP polyfills (by symfony)
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| php-src | polyfill | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | |
| 71 | 2,575 | |
| - | 1.6% | |
| 5.0 | 7.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | 9 days ago | |
| C | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
php-src
Posts with mentions or reviews of php-src.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-12.
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(Shared Hosting) Do you still offer EOL/unsupported PHP versions to your clients?
Microsoft of all people are still doing security back ports for older versions of php. At least for 5.6 and some versions of 7.x. microsoft/php-src
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Today marks the first time my product does not support PHP versions that reached EOL
Microsoft is also maintaining 5.6, and making it available for everyone, here: https://github.com/microsoft/php-src
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A storm in a glass of water - thoughts on updating to PHP 8
See also : https://github.com/microsoft/php-src
polyfill
Posts with mentions or reviews of polyfill.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-30.
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How Symfony components power Drupal’s drive to new frontiers
“The Polyfill Iconv component provides a native PHP implementation of the php.net/iconv functions (short of [ob_iconv_handler](https://php.net/ob-iconv-handler)). More information can be found in the main Polyfill README.”
- Can We Develop in PHP 8.1 and Still Output PHP 7.4 Code?
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Today marks the first time my product does not support PHP versions that reached EOL
FYI array_key_first and such were easily polyfilled in older versions https://github.com/symfony/polyfill but it doesn't matter now! 😅
What are some alternatives?
When comparing php-src and polyfill you can also consider the following projects:
setup-php - GitHub action to set up PHP with extensions, php.ini configuration, coverage drivers, and various tools.
polyfill-ctype - Symfony polyfill for ctype functions
square-one - Modern Tribe's legacy WordPress framework for the classic editor.
polyfill-mbstring - Symfony polyfill for the Mbstring extension
Rector - Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
phabel - PHP transpiler - Write and deploy modern PHP 8 code, today.
rector-prefixed - [READ-ONLY] Prefixed version of Rector
Enum - PHP 7.1 enum implementation
rector-downgrade-php - Rector downgrade rules for PHP