[php] PHP 7.4 end of life

[ybelenko]

It's me again 🤣
PHP 7.4 reached end of life at 28 Nov 2022

End of life - A release that is no longer supported. Users of this release should upgrade as soon as possible, as they may be exposed to unpatched security vulnerabilities.

PHP: Supported Versions:

• 7.4 until 28 Nov 2022
• 8.0 until 26 Nov 2023
• 8.1 until 26 Nov 2024

It seems that we need to change minimum PHP version to php: ^8.0 in all php generators. We should not only change composer requirement, but check with extra caution that Composer actually can resolve all the deps under PHP 8.0. In other words check that generator builds and actually works.

Current Requirements:

Generator	PHP version
php client	^7.4 || ^8.0
Laravel server	>= 7.2.5
Lumen server	>= 7.2.5
Slim4 server	^7.4 || ^8.0
Symfony server	>=7.4.0|>=8.0.2
php-mezzio-ph server	^ 7.3 || ^8.0
php-mezzio-ph-modern server	^8.0
php-dt client	^7.3 || ^8.0
php-dt-modern client	^8.0

cc @jebentier @dkarlovi @mandrean @jfastnacht @renepardon
cc @Articus as author of php-mezzio-ph, php-mezzio-ph-modern, php-dt client, php-dt-modern client

[Articus]

It's me again 🤣

Thanks for keeping track of that 👍🏻

Firstly a small clarification - php-mezzio-ph-modern server and php-dt-modern client are not separate generators. modern is just a flag that can be set via cli arguments --additional-properties=modern=true. And the question of dropping 7.4 support is a bit tricky because of that. It requires a huge choice - either drop modern option completely or introduce a new meaning for it (for example PHP 8.1 enumeration support).

Hopefully I'll find some free time to work on this till the end of the month.

[hugofintecture]

@ybelenko can be closed no?

[ybelenko]

@ybelenko can be closed no?

I'm not sure that we changed minimum PHP version across all PHP generators. I keep that issue as reminder.

[NiklasBr]

Is there a way to use php-nextgen generator in v7.0.0 today? Seems not since I get the error "Can't load config class with name 'php-nextgen'"

But is there a docker image available with php-nextgen beta?

[wing328]

I've filed #16480.

[ybelenko]

Closed in favour #17508