PHP RFC: Deprecations for PHP 8.0

• Date: 2019-07-23
• Author: Nikita Popov nikic@php.net, George Peter Banyard girgias@php.net
• Status: Draft

The RFC proposes to deprecate the listed functionality in PHP 8.0 and remove it in PHP 9.

The following list provides a short overview of the functionality targeted for deprecation, while more detailed explanation is provided in the Proposal section:

• date_sunrise() and date_sunset()
• DateTimeInterface::ISO8601/DATE_ISO8601
• get_browser
• get_class() without argument

Each feature proposed for deprecation is voted separately and requires a 2/3 majority. All votes refer to deprecation in PHP 8.0 and removal in PHP 9.0.

In favor of date_sun_info(). Ini settings date.default_latitude and date.default_longitude will also be removed once the functions are gone. See https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4423.

This format is misleading as per the documentation it is actually not compatible with ISO-8601 and DateTime::ATOM/DATE_ATOM should be used instead.

This function is part of the standard library but requires an external dependency (browscap.ini) to work. Moreover, userland implementations are faster than this function. (See user note 122181: http://docs.php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php#122181)

nikic: I disagree.

tbd

tbd

tbd https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5067

WIP

This is rather exotic and is equivalent to using __CLASS__ or self::class which are more explicit as the behaviour could be unexpected within a child class (see example 2 from the documentation page) and the expected behaviour is probably get_called_class()/static::class with LSB.

For PHP 8.0 additional deprecation notices will appear. For PHP 9.0 the previously deprecated functionality will no longer be available.