The Symfony Polyfill / PHP 7.2 Component
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This component provides some PHP 7.2 features to applications using earlier PHP versions.
Installation
1
$ composer require symfony/polyfill-php72
Alternatively, you can clone the https://github.com/symfony/polyfill-php72 repository.
Note
If you install this component outside of a Symfony application, you must
require the vendor/autoload.php
file in your code to enable the class
autoloading mechanism provided by Composer. Read
this article for more details.
Usage
Once this component is installed in your application, you can use the following constants and functions, no matter if your PHP version is earlier than PHP 7.2.
Provided Constants
PHP_OS_FAMILY
(value = depends on your operating system)
Provided Functions
- sapi_windows_vt100_support (only on Windows systems)
- spl_object_id
- stream_isatty
- utf8_decode
- utf8_encode