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==GA Reassessment==
== Using Type Declaration instead of Type Hints ==
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As my change has been reverted it seems appropriate to discuss the matter.

The PHP documentations refers to them as Type declaration, see: https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php#functions.arguments.type-declaration, and the original RFC introducing scalar types, uses the word "declaration", see: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints_v5
Although it is true that the PHP 5 documentation referred to them as "hints", and that the "Object Typehint" RFC is named as such but for all intent and purposes it is a type declaration.

Moreover, the word "declaration" is used in other places correctly instead of "hint", see:

{{quote|text=PHP 7 also included new language features. Most notably, it introduces return type ''declarations'' for functions which complement the existing parameter type ''declarations'', and support for the scalar types (integer, float, string, and boolean) in parameter and return type ''declarations''.}}

{{quote|text=Unusually for a dynamically typed language, PHP supports type ''declarations'' on function parameters, which are enforced at runtime. This has been supported for classes and interfaces since PHP 5.0, for arrays since PHP 5.1, for "callables" since PHP 5.4, and scalar (integer, float, string and boolean) types since PHP 7.0. PHP 7.0 also has type ''declarations'' for function return types, expressed by placing the type name after the list of parameters, preceded by a colon. For example, the getAdder function from the earlier example could be annotated with types like so in PHP 7:}}

{{quote|text=By default, scalar type ''declarations'' follow weak typing principles.}}

(Emphasis mine)

As I'm new to contributing to Misplaced Pages, I don't know what to do about the following comment from the revert commit
{{quote|text="typehint" is the commonly used term in the community.}}

As sure it is referred to that but it is not accurate, and my understanding is that Misplaced Pages articles should be accurate.

Can someone more experienced clarify?

== Syntax highlighting ==

The <code>syntaxhighlight</code> tag does not support modern PHP syntax:
<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$person = new class
{
public $firstName = "John";
public $lastName = "Smith";

public function name(){
return "$this->firstName $this->lastName";
}
};
</syntaxhighlight>
or
<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
class MyClass
{
public string $var1;

public array $var2;

function pr(string|int $array, array|null $subj): float|false
{

}
}

$myObj->pr(subj: , array: "John");

</syntaxhighlight>
] (]) 17:10, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

== Dropping legacy file extensions ==

The infobox currently has this for file extensions:

php, phtml, php3, php4, php5, php7, phps, php-s, pht, phar

Some of these are extremely rare to see in the wild, like <code>php3</code>. I am wondering if it would make sense to drop these from the infobox, so we are left with just the common ones (roughly sorted by how common):

php, phar, phps, phtml

And then perhaps we have a line somewhere in the article that explains why you might come across something like <code>.php3</code> in a legacy system? Modern PHP just does not have all these silly extensions.

] (]) 09:13, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

== SampleCode replaces Screenshot in this type of Infobox ==

{{ping|Ancarda}} Hi, SampleCode argument is new and it should be used is instead of the past argument "screenshot". See, SampleCode has an abstract description of the total programming style. It conveys important information about remaining parts of this Infobox. So we should use this argument as the second rendering item, to successfully convey an overview of PHP language. Thanks, ] (]) 12:22, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
:Dear {{ping|Peterl}} Please read the above paragraph. By the same reason, perhaps we should apply that for Java and Javascript. If you disagree, please discuss that here. Thanks, ] (]) 17:55, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

{{ping|Hooman Mallahzadeh}}. Interesting, it seems some languages have sample code in a screenshot, I wasn't aware of that. I had a look through the Wayback Machine and it seems the PHP article never did. Nevertheless, the article has many code snippets, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/PHP#Example demonstrates OOP, string concatenation, list usage (<code></code>, <code>foreach</code>), closures & functional programming (<code>array_walk</code>), string interpolation, and one style of comments (<code>//</code>).

I appreciate the infobox might support a snippet to give a feel of the language, but just having hello world there doesn't seem useful to me. Perhaps it's useful to other people, I'm not sure. I especially feel this as https://en.wikipedia.org/PHP#Syntax gives two different ways to accomplish hello world. I honestly think a screenshot is fine -- is that deprecated for accessibility reasons? It seems like you'd have to put a lot of text there to make it useful (which you can't fit into the infobox), or somehow make it expand (like an image does today when you click on it).

Do a lot of other languages have this? I will admit I reverted your edit because I had seen previous similar edits reverted too, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=JavaScript&diff=next&oldid=1069635829&diffmode=source
] (]) 05:47, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

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Multiple issues. The article is peppered with {{cn}} tags, and is largely based on primary sources (with not enough weight being given to third party sources). There is a one line section covering the PHP Foundation which should probably eithier be integrated into "History" (or removed completely). Additionally there are multiple dubious statements and promotional SEAOFBLUEs in the "Use" section while the "Security" section offers uncited WP:NOTGUIDE advice on security matters Sohom (talk) 08:24, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

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