Req #53399 [Com]: Add E_STRICT when defining a required funcparameter after an optional parameter

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53399&edit=1 ID: 53399 Comment by: ron dot kirschler at gmail dot com Reported by: jbafford at zort dot net Summary: Add E_STRICT when defining a required funcparameter after an optional parameter Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: * Assigned To: nikic Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Some applications make (sometimes heavy) use of autowiring and the related feature of setting parameters by name rather than by order. Here it is quite common to set parameters in a different, because semantically different meaningful order. For me, there are more advantages to ignoring this deprecation notice rather than following it. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-03-03 11:02:20] nikic@php.net This throws a deprecation warnings as of PHP 8. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-01-13 15:36:19] carusogabriel@php.net The following pull request has been associated: Patch Name: Deprecate required param after optional On GitHub: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5067 Patch: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5067.patch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-03-27 20:53:42] tpunt@php.net Related to bug #68445 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-10-16 00:20:02] stas@php.net I think the idea is good, however the patch seems too complicated. I do not think we need additional flag and not sure why would we need additional pass through arguments to do it - if we say everything after certain arg is optional, then we already know how to do it, we have settings for that in args structure. And we can detect this stuation immediately when we parse the arguments on compile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-24 16:25:43] jbafford at zort dot net Description: ------------ PHP does not emit a warning of any kind when defining a function with a required parameter after an optional parameter. For example: function foo($optional = 1, $required) {} It doesn't make sense to define a required parameter after an optional one, since that effectively makes all preceding optional parameters required. Since this is an error that can produce bugs and other warnings if one is not careful (calling the above function with less than two parameters will cause warnings to be emitted for the missing $required parameter), PHP should emit a warning of some kind when functions like this are defined. The attached patch includes the following changes: * add an E_STRICT warning when such a function is defined. (The warning will only appear when E_STRICT is included in the php.ini, since it happens at script compile time, before error_reporting can be called.) * add Zend/tests/func_optarg1.phpt and Zend/tests/func_optarg2.phpt to test for the presence and absence of the warning * Fixes Zend/tests/call_user_func_005.phpt, which fails with the warning added. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53399&edit=1