Preparing PHP 8.4 announcement page

[saundefined]

Let's start preparing for the release.

• Update logo ( @pronskiy )
• Finish the English version
• Put messages in lang-files
• Add links to Documentation
• Waiting for the release of PHP 8.4 🎉

Any help is welcome, especially from RFC authors :)

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🚀 Preview for commit 9fc3eff can be found at https://web-php-pr-1079.preview.thephp.foundation

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🚀 Regression report for commit 9fc3eff is at https://web-php-regression-report-pr-1079.preview.thephp.foundation

[Girgias]

A big feature of this release is also the dedicated PDO Driver subclasses, IMHO.

[ndossche]

The rendering of the property hooks snippet is a bit ugly, screen resolution is 1920x1080

[jorgsowa]

Ref: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/raising_zero_to_power_of_negative_number

[ndossche]

Something like this for DOM?

[TimWolla]

Thank you. I have some suggestions for the #[\Deprecated] example to make it self-contained.

[TimWolla]

Also removing the lazy objects from the title, replacing it with the new DOM API which sounds sufficiently shiny.

[TimWolla]

@saundefined It appears the release page on https://web-php-pr-1079.preview.thephp.foundation/releases/8.4/en.php is broken. Did the deploy fail? I'm not seeing any syntax errors in the last two commits.

[saundefined]

Did the deploy fail?

I think so, thanks for pointing that out!
I re-run the workflow, and it deployed correctly.

[TimWolla]

I had a chat with a co-worker about the release page and he disliked the Property Hook example, because:

1. It uses western naming assumptions.
2. It only shows virtual properties, which as per the RFC is not the main use case of the property hooks. The main use case is not writing methods because they “might” be used.

To fix these issues, we came up with the suggested examples. By using a technical identifier, we do not run into the “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names” issue and by leaving languageCode a regular property we showcase all three main types of hook usage (“no hook”, “set-only hook”, and “virtual property”).

[saundefined]

@TimWolla thanks a lot! ❤️

[theodorejb]

These methods don't exist in the property hooks version.

[ndossche]

Based on Tim's feedback:

[theodorejb]

One more suggestion: I think the Asymmetric Visibility example should have a line which reads the property, so it's clearer that this still works.

[marcosmarcolin]

@saundefined I would like to contribute with pt_BR for the release. Should I include it in this MR, or make a separate one?

[saundefined]

@marcosmarcolin I think it's better in this one, to merge all the changes at once.
But keep in mind that the text of the English version is still subject to change

[jorgsowa]

Three messages are not displayed in the page.

[TimWolla]

I noticed some missing return types in the examples.

[jorgsowa]

Added points about:

• new JIT implementation
• function grapheme_str_split().

[saundefined]

Final preparations before merging,
I guess I'll merge it a little later today.

All references to PHP 8.4 from the main page and header have been reverted,
the page will only be accessible via a direct link.

A separate PR will be prepared later today as well.

[bkosun]

Remove redundant details as all changes are related to PHP 8.4