smarty-php / smarty-php/smarty
Support nullsafe operator
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Description
PHP supports the nullsafe operator ?-> since version 8, so it would be fine, if this were reflected in Smarty as well. A rather simple patch should suffice, see attachment (but I am not a parser expert, as in the suggestions a couple of days ago).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the attached patch.txt first, then locate the Smarty parser entry point and related parser tests that it targets. Confirm that templates using PHP 8's nullsafe operator parse and render correctly, while existing syntax remains unaffected.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100