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rfc:allow_null [2022/01/21 00:02] – craigfrancisrfc:allow_null [2022/02/08 14:43] – Add example changes craigfrancis
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 This also applies to those developers not using //strict_types=1//, which is excessive. This also applies to those developers not using //strict_types=1//, which is excessive.
  
-And while the individual changes are easy - there are many of them, they are difficult to find, and often pointless (e.g. //urlencode(strval($name))//).+While individual changes are easy, there are many of them, difficult to find, and often pointless, e.g. 
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 +  * urlencode(strval($name)); 
 +  * urlencode((string) $name); 
 +  * urlencode($name ?? '');
  
 Without the changes below, developers will need to either - use these deprecation notices, or use very strict Static Analysis (one that can determine when a variable can be //NULL//; e.g. Psalm at [[https://psalm.dev/docs/running_psalm/error_levels/|level 3]], with no baseline). Without the changes below, developers will need to either - use these deprecation notices, or use very strict Static Analysis (one that can determine when a variable can be //NULL//; e.g. Psalm at [[https://psalm.dev/docs/running_psalm/error_levels/|level 3]], with no baseline).
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 ===== Implementation ===== ===== Implementation =====
  
-TODO+https://github.com/craigfrancis/php-src/compare/master...allow-null 
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 +This patch currently defines //Z_PARAM_STR_ALLOW_NULL//. 
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 +It works a bit like //Z_PARAM_STR_OR_NULL//, but it will return an empty string instead of //NULL//. 
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 +It's a fairly easy drop in replacement for //Z_PARAM_STR//, which is used by functions like [[https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/7b90ebeb3f954123915f6d62fb7b2cd3fdf3c6ec/ext/standard/html.c#L1324|htmlspecialchars()]].
  
 ===== Rejected Features ===== ===== Rejected Features =====
rfc/allow_null.txt · Last modified: 2022/04/05 17:49 by craigfrancis

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