PHP 8.1 Released With Fibers, Enumerations, Read-Only Properties & Much More

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PHP 8.1 Released With Fibers, Enumerations, Read-Only Properties & Much More

PHP 8.1.0 was just officially released as the latest annual feature update to this widely-used, server-side programming language...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PHP-8.1-Released

[uid313]

Is PHAR in any better shape now than it was some years ago?
I thought PHAR was cool, but I played with many, many years ago and had some bad experiences with it.

PHP seems great! 👍️
Now it has everything except generic attributes and async/await keywords.

[AJenbo]

[QUOTE=uid313;n1292932]Is PHAR in any better shape now than it was some years ago?

better how? Was it 2019, was the issue with the degree of compression or something else?

[caligula]

Nice.. default parameters, final/const, and enums. I didn't even expect PHP didn't have those yet.

[uid313]

[QUOTE=AJenbo;n1292938]

Is Phar in any better shape now than it was some years ago?

better how? Was it 2019, was the issue with the degree of compression or something else?

No, prior to 2019, long, long prior to 2019, but I am not sure how long.
No, I never had any issues with the compression, I just vaguely remembering having issues with Phar, it felt like it was buggy and immature.
I tried to make a Phar that contained both an CLI interface and a web interface in one, so if it was run inside a webserver it would present a web page, but if ran from the command-line it would run a CLI.
I don't remember exactly what was the issue though.

It seems there have been some Phar fixes over the years.

• Use SHA256 by default for signature.
• Add support for OpenSSL_SHA256 and OpenSSL_SHA512 signature.
• Fixed bug #81211: Symlinks are followed when creating PHAR archive (cmb)
• Fixed bug #75850 (Unclear error message wrt. __halt_compiler() w/o semicolon) (cmb)
• Fixed bug #70091 (Phar does not mark UTF-8 filenames in ZIP archives).
• Fixed bug #53467 (Phar cannot compress large archives).
• Fixed bug #76929 (zip-based phar does not respect phar.require_hash).
• Fixed bug #77565 (Incorrect locator detection in ZIP-based phars).
• Fixed bug #69279 (Compressed ZIP Phar extractTo() creates garbage files).
• Fixed bug #73809 (Phar Zip parse crash - mmap fail).
• Fixed bug #75102 (`PharData` says invalid checksum for valid tar).
• Fixed bug #77322 (PharData::addEmptyDir('/') Possible integer overflow).

[uid313]

Michael, have you considered using Phar for PTS?

[curfew]

Nice.. default parameters, final/const, and enums. I didn't even expect PHP didn't have those yet.

Default arguments with final and const have been around for 15 years probably... These useless comments by pure troll retards make me puke sometimes.