Hi again !
The important part is that any instantiations and function calls are
evaluated at call-time and not compile time !
So time() would return the timestamp at time of call and not when
compiler first encounters the COOKIE_PARAMS const array. The new params
keyword would make this clear to the compiler
/Henrik
On 18/08/2026 11.43, Henrik Skov wrote:
Thanks for the feedback.
Problem with your re-written example is that it works with/depends on
global variables...
I was the code below actually worked:
<?php
const COOKIE_PARAMS = [
"samesite" => "Lax",
"expires_or_options" => time() + 3600, // Let's say time
is 1787047184
"path" => "/",
"domain" => "",
"secure" => false,
"httponly" => true,
];
function fakeSetCookie(
string $name,
string $value = "",
int $expires_or_options = 0,
string $path = "",
string $domain = "",
bool $secure = false,
bool $httponly = false,
string $samesite = "Strict",
) {
var_dump([
"name" => $name,
"value" => $value,
"expires_or_options" => $expires_or_options,
"path" => $path,
"domain" => $domain,
"secure" => $secure,
"httponly" => $httponly,
"samesite" => $samesite,
]);
}
sleep(100);
var_dump(time()); // -> 1787047284
fakeSetCookie("testName", "testValue", ...COOKIE_PARAMS); so
expires_or_options become 1787050884
But sadly, it does not work:
Fatal error: Constant expression contains invalid operations in
/tmp/x.php on line 2
/Henrik
On 18/08/2026 11.34, AllenJB wrote:
On 2026-08-18 10:12, Henrik Skov wrote:
Hi list !
Just got an idea:
params COOKIE_PARAMS {
time() + 3600, // Duration - NOTE: any expression is
allowed here except pure variables
'/', // Path
'', // Can't remember what this is...
(! IS_DEV), // secure — set true once served over
HTTPS (production)
TRUE, // httpOnly
'Lax', // Lax|Strict
}
Instead of this: (I am using Swoole)
$response->cookie(
self::COOKIE_NAME,
$token,
time() + 3600,
'/',
'',
(! IS_DEV), // secure — set true once served over HTTPS
TRUE, // httpOnly
'Lax',
);
we could do:
$response->cookie(
self::COOKIE_NAME,
$token,
:::COOKIE_PARAMS
);
I know it is kind of similar to the spread operator but not quite.
What do you guys think ?Email:
PHP already has named parameters[0], and this can be combined with
array unpacking[1] to produce basically the same as you're requesting
here: https://3v4l.org/kD27a#v
(Note: I've purposely moved the samesite parameter to prove the named
array keys are mapping to the named function parameters, and not just
working because they happen to be in order)
[0]
https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php#functions.named-arguments
[1]
https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php#language.types.array.unpacking
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Henrik Skov
/HSK Consulting/
Blegdamsvej 128B, 4
DK-2100 Copenhagen O
Tel.: +45 27 62 83 01
Email: [email protected]
