Tag Archives: ReadOnly Properties

PHP 8.2 – The Release of Deprecations

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Mark Baker

The release date for PHP 8.2 has been announced, with General Availability set for the 24th November 2022; the release managers have been elected with Ben Ramsey (@ramsey) as the “veteran” supporting Pierrick Charron (@adoyy) and Sergey Panteleev (@s_panteleev) as … Continue reading →

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ReadOnly Gotchas – A few more limitations with PHP 8.1 ReadOnly Properties

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Mark Baker

Last month I wrote about the new readonly properties in PHP 8.1, and the difficulties if you want to clone an object that uses them (together with a couple of potential solutions to that problem). The inability to clone an … Continue reading →

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The Tears of a Clone

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Mark Baker

On the face of it, the new readonly properties in PHP 8.1 seem really useful for Value Objects and Data Transfer Objects: both should be immutable; setting property values should always be handled in the constructor, so no setters; and … Continue reading →

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