PHP 8.0 support

[drmuey]

Hello,

Are you all looking at PHP 8.0 support?

If so do you have a ball park ETA?

Thanks!

[sinbadxiii]

I am also interested in php 8 support

[Jeckerson]

Phalcon v4.1 only is supported with 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 PHP versions. PHP8 will be supported since Phalcon v5.0 and v4.2.

Phalcon 5 will be in PHP native, here is the official repository - https://github.com/phalcon/phalcon
ETA - end of 2020 ~ beginning of 2021.

[Jeckerson]

Related

• Support for php8 zephir-lang/zephir#2111
• Support for php8 zephir-lang/zephir#2113

[Jeckerson]

Related

• Add php 8 build matrix for windows, update readme zephir-lang/php-zephir-parser#98

[ghost]

Yeah, I would rather wait a year or two but have native php Phalcon 5 more complete and PHP8 ready. Good to see the new official v5 repo! Keep up the good work guys! You are all amazing!

[Jeckerson]

Related

• Fix uninitialized named parameters field into the zend_fcall_info structure (PHP8 only) zephir-lang/zephir#2135

[Jeckerson]

Related

• Fix PHP 8 warning missing arginfo zephir-lang/zephir#2134
• Php8 zephir-lang/zephir#2136
• 1.3.5 zephir-lang/php-zephir-parser#97

[Jeckerson]

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[Jeckerson]

First local run of unit tests with PHP8

[Jeckerson]

Related #15357

[lcdennison]

What's the process to install/compile the 5.0.0-alpha.1 version? I tried using the process at https://docs.phalcon.io/4.0/en/installation#compile-from-sources (using both master and tags/v5.0.0-alpha.1), but I'm getting issues with that method on my local Debian setup.

Normally I'd do a simple install via Remi repo, but the updated Phalcon package is not available there yet because it's not on PECL.

[Jeckerson]

@ldennison Hello, you will need latest 0.13.x version of Zephir and PSR extension installed, after that clone project and use this commands:

php zephir compile

Fast check if it was compiled:

php -d extension=ext/modules/phalcon.so -r echo "Phalcon\Version::get();"

Then install extension globally:

php zephir install

And after that check if it was installed:

php --ri phalcon

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In case you are in Windows, Win dll's will be available since next release.

[ghost]

Will 4.2 be Zephir/C?

[niden]

I do not think there will be a 4.2.x.

4.1.x is a PHP extension
5.x is also a PHP extension

6.x is native PHP

[fakharak]

Is there any updated ETA for 4.1.x and / or 5.x ?

What are expectations related to the performance difference between cphalcon (5.x) and PHP-native (6.x) implementations?

[niden]

Is there any updated ETA for 4.1.x and / or 5.x ?

What are expectations related to the performance difference between cphalcon (5.x) and PHP-native (6.x) implementations?

We have mentioned this before in blog posts as well as community hangouts:

4.x is maintained only for security updates. Most likely we will not release any more
5.x is our main focus since this is kind of a "fix a lot of interfaces" version. This is our main focus and it does support PHP 8. I am running alpha3 on a project right now.

6.x (native) will start after we have v5 stable and out the door.

There will be an impact in performance for sure. v6 will feature benchmarks which will allow us to see bottlenecks. For those bottleneck areas we will also have an extension (or extensions) available for people that want more performance. v6 will detect if the extension is loaded and use it.

[Jeckerson]

PHP 8.0 support depends on Zephir, which already supports it since version 0.13.x. Closing.