str_starts_with only available in PHP8

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str_starts_with only available in PHP8

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 3 comments

This library uses str_starts_with in four places, but it is only available on PHP 8, which I think defeats the purpose of this transpiler. Source: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-starts-with.php. Composer/Transformer.php breaks my composer update on PHP 7.4.

Answer 1 · 2021-08-23T18:15:17.000Z

I guess this package is for doing the opposite (transpiling from 7 to 8), so I close this issue

Answer 2 · 2021-08-23T18:30:46.000Z

No, you're right, this library is for transpiling PHP 8 to PHP 5.6.
The final version of the library will automatically install all required polyfills automatically, I'm thinking of finalizing the latest details sometime this week (I tagged a few releases mainly to test requiring from packagist).

Answer 3 · 2021-09-03T21:53:36.000Z

All fixed, phabel is now ready!