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php-8-4
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Symfony 8 on PHP 8.4: the config rewrite nobody warned us about
We went from Symfony 7.4 to 8.0 on PHP 8.4. Most of the work was converting fluent PHP and XML config to array shapes, not chasing removed APIs. Notes on what broke and whether 7.4 is the better call.
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Property hooks, and the three places they earn their keep
PHP 8.4 shipped in November. Three weeks of converting getter and setter pairs to property hooks got me to nine, and Doctrine ORM throws if you put one on an entity. Notes on where the feature actually pays.