Better Type Hinting Proposal for Class Properties in PHP 7.1 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 70

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Introduction (0:20)

Summary (1:40)

JavaScript Innovation Award Rankings of 2016 (44:50)

PHP Innovation Award Winners of Janurary 2016 (45:56)

PHP Innovation Award Rankings of 2016 (54:43)

Conclusion (56:39)

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• PHP 5.5.33, 5.5.34, 5.6.19, 5.6.20, 7.0.4 and 7.0.5 released

• RFC: Null Coealesce Equal Operator

• Proposal: Evaluate arguments of new for classes without constructors

• RFC: Catching Multiple Exception Types

• Proposal: Empty Property Names to suport json_decode

• Proposal: Spaceship assignment operator

• RFC: Typed Properties

• RFC: var deprecation declined

• Call for Donation: The Family of Core Developer of CakePHP and Lithium PHP Frameworks Needs Our Urgent Help

Summary Transcript

The first topic we are going to cover here is about a proposal that is about null coalescing but for assigning values. There is another proposal that was approved for null coalescing but for right hand expressions.

Another discussion that is going on is about an inconsistency that Nikita Popov found in PHP code if you have parameters in a constructor call but the class of the object you are creating does not have a constructor, this code here in the parameters is not evaluate.The idea is to somehow make it more consistent.

Another proposal that is being discussed, actually this is a more formal RFC for something that was proposed like I think in January, is to have multiple exception types being caught using exceptions. If you have different types of exceptions you can have multiple catch statement for each type of exception that you want to catch.

Another topic is about allowing empty property names in classes. This is not usual but since nowadays you can decode JSON objects and they can have properties with empty names, the idea is to support this in PHP so those JSON objects work as well.

The next topic that we are going to cover is about the spaceship operator but this time applied to assignment statements.

Then we talk about a more finalized proposal about having typed properties, I mean type hinting for class variables. This was already also discussed before but there is an updated proposal that addresses some concerns and it was presented recently.

Another topic that we are going to cover is about the final result about the vote for var deprecation, which was discussed last month and now the results come out.

Finally we are going to talk a story that is a bit sad. It is about an issue with the wife of Nate Abele who is one of the core developers of CakePHP and Lithium PHP frameworks. She had an accident with her daughter that was caused by post birth depression, which is a very particular problem. Nobody wants to have that problem.

So now they are in court trying to avoid that she goes to prison for something that certainly she didn't want to commit since it is a special condition that happens to women after they have their kids. Now they are looking for donations to help funding the costs of laywer and experts, so they can win their case in the court.