Update nullable types for PHP 8.4

[heelc29]

Fixes

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::extract_text(): Implicitly marking parameter $length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 1622

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::file_get_contents(): Implicitly marking parameter $offset as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 1842

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::file_get_contents(): Implicitly marking parameter $max_length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 1842

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::getSupportInfo(): Implicitly marking parameter $key as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 2580

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::html_entity_decode(): Implicitly marking parameter $flags as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 3029

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::lcfirst(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 4301

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::lcwords(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 4365

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::ltrim(): Implicitly marking parameter $chars as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 4444

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::rtrim(): Implicitly marking parameter $chars as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 5625

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_camelize(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 5762

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_delimit(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 6022

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_replace(): Implicitly marking parameter $count as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 7678

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_slice(): Implicitly marking parameter $end as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 7913

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_titleize(): Implicitly marking parameter $ignore as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 8704

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_titleize(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 8704

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_titleize(): Implicitly marking parameter $word_define_chars as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 8704

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_to_lines(): Implicitly marking parameter $remove_short_values as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 9064

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_to_words(): Implicitly marking parameter $remove_short_values as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 9111

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::str_upper_camelize(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 9352

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::strcspn(): Implicitly marking parameter $length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 9515

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::strip_tags(): Implicitly marking parameter $allowable_tags as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 9652

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::strspn(): Implicitly marking parameter $length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 11118

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::strtocasefold(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 11348

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::strtolower(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 11403

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::strtoupper(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 11483

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::substr(): Implicitly marking parameter $length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 11698

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::substr_compare(): Implicitly marking parameter $length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 11868

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::substr_count(): Implicitly marking parameter $length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 11926

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::substr_count_in_byte(): Implicitly marking parameter $length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 12018

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::substr_in_byte(): Implicitly marking parameter $length as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 12172

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::titlecase(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 12566

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::trim(): Implicitly marking parameter $chars as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 12984

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::ucfirst(): Implicitly marking parameter $lang as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 13030

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::wordwrap_per_line(): Implicitly marking parameter $delimiter as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 13496

Deprecated: voku\helper\UTF8::reduce_string_array(): Implicitly marking parameter $remove_short_values as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in voku\portable-utf8\src\voku\helper\UTF8.php on line 13827

Proposed Changes

• avoid deprecation with PHP 8.4

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This change is 

[Fneufneu]

PHP 8.4 will be out soon, can we merge this plz ?

[Hackwar]

Just trying to get some more attention for this. We are using this in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms and currently encounter the problem when updating to PHP 8.4. Merging this and a new release would be really great.

[YepYuYu]

PHP has been released with 8.4.1 and this issue is still not addressed.

[TomA-R]

hey @voku, is there a timeline for getting this reviewed by any chance? Thanks a lot in advance!

[ToshY]

@voku Could you please take a look at this tiny PR, merge it, and create a new tag for it? Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes of your time. Would help a bunch of people. Thanks in advance.

[laoneo]

This change is very much needed, hopefully we see it soon in a release.

[JasonStainton]

+1 getting this pushed through. I've never seen so many deprecations warnings 😅

[mohammadhzp]

Here is a tmp workaround to be able to update to PHP 8.4 for now:

"repositories": [
        {
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
                "name": "voku/portable-utf8",
                "version": "6.0.14",
                "source": {
                    "type": "git",
                    "url": "https://github.com/joomla-backports/portable-utf8.git",
                    "reference": "joomla-5.3"
                }
            }
        }
    ]

Edit: Here is another approach done by Joomla team itself.

P.S: This will install the Joomla team fork of portable utf8

[Hackwar]

Please don't use the fork from the Joomla team. We are not sure if we are going to use that fork and don't plan to support it. We are actually only using it because a dependency of us (wamania/stemmer) is using it and we did provide a PR to that dependency to convert away from portable-utf8 to the Joomla Framework string package instead, which has enough capabilities to replace this library.

[mohammadhzp]

Please don't use the fork from the Joomla team. We are not sure if we are going to use that fork and don't plan to support it. We are actually only using it because a dependency of us (wamania/stemmer) is using it and we did provide a PR to that dependency to convert away from portable-utf8 to the Joomla Framework string package instead, which has enough capabilities to replace this library.

Thank you for clarification. Not supporting it is totally logical and understandable. however as of right now that library does not require any attention and there is no other safe option either. so just please keep it as is for a short period of time until the current MR is merged or an alternative comes up.

[Kint0ki]

This PR has been open for over 6 months now, and seeing both the repo and @voku's activity, doesn't seem this will get merged anytime soon. An actual maintained fork would be the nice to have instead.