Symfony achieves 100% PHP7 compatibility

August 11, 2015 • Published by Javier Eguiluz

PHP7, the new version of the programming language Symfony is built with, will be released at the end of the year. The recent release of its third beta has brought us another step closer to the final stable release.

During these last past months, we've been working very hard to achieve full PHP7 compatibility. This effort accelerated during the past weeks and we're glad to announce that all Symfony maintained branches are now 100% compatible with PHP7.

Our PHP7 compatibility journey started on February 2015, when Nicolas Grekas added php: nightly to the list of tested PHP engines on Travis CI (see commit). After that, a lot of pull requests followed to fix PHP7 compatibility for Symfony components.

Some of these changes were related to the new reserved keywords, which prevents you from using int, float, bool, string, true, false and null as the name of your classes (see PR #14472). This forced us to rename the Null, True and False constraints (see PR #14228).

Another big change was related to the new Throwable interface introduced by PHP7 and which is implemented by all the internal error and exception classes. Our exception handler needed to be updated for this new interface (see PR #14959).

Lastly, we've just removed php: nightly from the list of PHP engines which can silently fail. This means that Symfony no longer accepts changes that break PHP7 compatibility, not even in the master branch where the upcoming Symfony 3 is being developed.

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Comments

Tomas Votruba said on Aug 11, 2015 at 12:31

Great job everyone!

Akash Kumar Sharma said on Aug 11, 2015 at 13:10

Wow. This was expected from Symfony .

Ghost said on Aug 11, 2015 at 13:38

Keep up the good work !

Andre Karell Contreras Jimenez said on Aug 11, 2015 at 15:01

Nice work. Congratulations to all contributors.

Mickaël Andrieu said on Aug 11, 2015 at 20:39

It's 100% php7 compatibility on test suite with BC on 2.X for some classes to be precise. It's a good announcement but as far as I know, all others projects that depend on Symfony are not PHP7 compatibles, for instance we have some issues with HTTP Foundation in BackBee. This announcement may be too optimistic in my opinion...

Revelator said on Aug 12, 2015 at 02:25

Hooray team! Perfect!

Hugo Hamon Certified said on Aug 12, 2015 at 03:12

Great achievement! It opens so great new opportunities with strong scalar type hints, performance optimization, better error handling etc. Thanks for the hard work guys ;)

Tales Santos said on Aug 12, 2015 at 12:05

Good to see you do a great job to make the Symfony one of the best frameworks to work. Thank you.

Gaurav Kumar Singh said on Aug 14, 2015 at 09:08

Great News! congratulation team

Lukas Lukac said on Aug 14, 2015 at 09:16

#10

Nice!

Nuruzzaman Milon said on Aug 14, 2015 at 11:31

#11

Nice. Good Job Symfony.

Claudinei Machado said on Aug 15, 2015 at 00:38

#12

This is quality team, adjusting the tools to language, congratulations and thanks!

गोपाल शर्मा said on Aug 15, 2015 at 05:23

#13

Hindi:सिम्फोनी मस्त है भाई। English:Symfony is awesome bro.

Ian Jeonghee Lee said on Aug 17, 2015 at 05:18

#14

Nice, Thank you! :)

Medi Dana said on Aug 18, 2015 at 11:04

#15

As we expect from a great framework. well done.

Youssef El Montaser said on Aug 18, 2015 at 13:07

#16

Great job, heartfelt thanks for the team.

IBD said on Aug 19, 2015 at 04:03

#17

I found a BUG entity generation, testing is symfony2.7 specific code location:. Vendor / doctrine / doctrine-bundle / mapping / DisconnectedMetadataFactory.php 119 line $ all [0] -> name should be changed to $ all [0] -> namespace

Yml files so that multiple entities operating normally generate code to generate Repository.php repositoryClass: SharedModel\TestRepository php app / console doctrine: generate: entities

IBD said on Aug 19, 2015 at 04:04

#18

Updated code： public function findNamespaceAndPathForMetadata(ClassMetadataCollection $metadata, $path = null) { $all = $metadata->getMetadata(); if (class_exists($all[0]->namespace)) { $r = new \ReflectionClass($all[0]->namespace); $path = $this->getBasePathForClass($r->getName(), $r->getNamespaceName(), dirname($r->getFilename())); } elseif (!$path) { throw new \RuntimeException(sprintf('Unable to determine where to save the "%s" class (use the --path option).', $all[0]->name)); }

    $metadata->setPath($path);
    $metadata->setNamespace(isset($r) ? $r->getNamespaceName() : $all[0]->namespace);
}

Navneet Kumar said on Aug 28, 2015 at 05:04

#19

When i try to switch engines from twig to php, it is not working with php.. "The service "twig" has a dependency on a non-existent service "assetic.twig_extension"." this is the error that i got...

any help?