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Summary: Discovering Potential OOP Backward-Compatibility Breaks

Discover how PHP 8 introduces stricter consistency in object-oriented programming, affecting constructors, magic methods, and serialization. Learn to identify and avoid backward-compatibility breaks, use enhanced type variance, and implement SPL data structures to write more resilient and flexible PHP 8 code.

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Key takeaways

  • We learned about potential problems in OOP code when migrating to PHP 8. In the first lesson, we learned how a number of bad practices were allowed in PHP 7 and earlier versions but now represent a potential code ...