Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Release Managers for PHP 8.1

2021-03-22 Thread Matty The Mad
If they were open to it, it might be advantageous for veterans to make some YouTube videos as they're going through the processes. That way infinite people can watch it actually being done for real and learn the processes well in advance without having to explain to each person one by one many

[PHP-DEV] PDO integer changes in 8.1 will stop many websites I support

2021-02-27 Thread Matty The Mad
PHP 8.1 PDO has been changed so that when MySQL returns an integer it will no longer be returned as a string, but as an int. The problem is this breaks any sites that use UNSIGNED ZEROFILL integer fields in MySQL. I support a number of websites where the phone numbers and post codes are all