Greetings, JEFFRY KILLEN. In reply to Your message dated Sunday, March 7, 2021, 7:07:43, > Hello: > php v 8.x questions > https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.incompatible.php > The ability to call non-static methods statically has been removed. > Thus is_callable() will fail when checking for a non-static method > with a classname (must check with an object instance). > Q: does this mean that calling a class method with self::methodName() from within the class will not work? Test this, it's easy. > I assume that static methods have to be declared as such Yes. > or am I misunderstanding ’static’ methods? > I seem to remember the use of $this in a method makes the method not > static. Nope. > I define all of the methods I write in such a way that they never > rely on $this or non static variables. Why, the hell? > One other question: > In Googling php v8 I came up with a reference to the v8js. This is the first > time I have encountered it. > Is there a publication that will address it in greater depth than I could > find on the php manual pages? There's a manual page, as with about any other properly formatted PECL extension. http://php.net/v8js > It appears that it essentially does eval on js code strings and shares the > result with php. Am I on the right track? See https://pecl.php.net/package/v8js for more info. -- Sincerely Yours, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
