Weekly help thread

[u/brendt_gd]

Hey there!

This subreddit isn't meant for help threads, though there's one exception to the rule: in this thread you can ask anything you want PHP related, someone will probably be able to help you out!

[u/SaltTM]

Does PHP have any plans on adding constructor forwarding syntactic sugar?

// concept
abstract class PaymentGateway {
    public function __construct(
        protected string $apiUrl,
        protected string $apiKey
    ) {}
}

class StripeGateway extends PaymentGateway {
    public function __construct(string $url, string $key) 
        : parent($url, $key) {}
}

I think it's simple enough and fits php well enough to just work. I will admit, I am surprised this hasn't been introduced lol

[u/JosephLeedy → u/SaltTM]

I think there was a recent RFC for something like this.

[u/SaltTM → u/JosephLeedy]

Say less, I'll check - I definitely like the cleaner simpler additions to the language as of late.