PHP RFC: Deprecations for PHP 8.2

• Date: 2021-07-20
• Author: Máté Kocsis kocsismate@php.net
• Status: Draft

The RFC proposes to deprecate the listed functionalities in PHP 8.2 and remove them 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:

• Call scope dependent behavior of internal methods

Each feature proposed for deprecation is voted separately and requires a 2/3 majority. All votes refer to deprecation in PHP 8.2 and removal in PHP 9.0.

A few internal methods return different values based on the scope they were called from:

• XMLReader::open()
• XMLReader::XML()
• DOMElement::setAttribute()
• DOMDocument::load()
• DOMDocument::loadHTML()
• DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile()
• DOMDocument::loadXML()

These methods should be allowed to be called either statically, or from the object scope, and their behavior shouldn't depend on the scope.