feat: add polyfills for new PHP versions

README.md

@@ -16,6 +16,22 @@ Some 3rd party libraries that are necessary to run Nextcloud.
 8. Commit all changes onto a new branch
 9. You might need the following command for pushing if used as submodule: `git push [email protected]:nextcloud/3rdparty.git branchname`
 
+### Updating polyfills
+
+We make use of Symfony polyfills to allow us writing code already using methods from newer PHP version.
+This allows cleaner code and once our minimum PHP version is bumped we have no duplicated code for those methods anymore.
+
+To keep the list of polyfills up to date, we need to add new polyfills once a new PHP version was released,
+for example with the release of PHP 8.4 we need to add its polyfills by running `composer require symfony/polyfill-php84`.
+
+But we need to also remove unused polyfills to reduce any (minimal) overhead.
+Thus once we increase our minimal PHP version we should remove the added polyfills from the list of dependencies.
+Moreover also some dependencies require polyfills, to also reduce the list of added polyfills,
+we add the unneeded onces to the `replace` section of the `composer.json`.
+
+So all PHP polyfills for already supported versions should be added to that section.
+But also polyfills for PHP modules that we require to be installed should be added, one example here is the `mbstring` module.
+
 ## Testing your PR with server
 
 1. On https://github.com/nextcloud/server make a new branch `3rdparty/my-dependency`

composer.json

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 	},
 	"require": {
 		"php": "^8.1",
+		"ext-ctype": "*",
+		"ext-mbstring": "*",
 		"aws/aws-sdk-php": "^3.349",
 		"bantu/ini-get-wrapper": "v1.0.1",
 		"cweagans/composer-patches": "^1.7",
@@ -54,14 +56,22 @@
 		"symfony/event-dispatcher": "^6.4.8",
 		"symfony/http-foundation": "^6.4.14",
 		"symfony/mailer": "^6.4",
-		"symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme": "^1.32.0",
-		"symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer": "^1.31.0",
+		"symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer": "^1.32.0",
+		"symfony/polyfill-php82": "^1.32.0",
+		"symfony/polyfill-php83": "^1.32.0",
+		"symfony/polyfill-php84": "^1.32.0",
 		"symfony/process": "^6.4.15",
 		"symfony/routing": "^6.4.12",
 		"symfony/translation": "^6.4.4",
 		"wapmorgan/mp3info": "^0.1.1",
 		"web-auth/webauthn-lib": "^4.9.1"
 	},
+	 "replace": {
+        "symfony/polyfill-php80": "*",
+		"symfony/polyfill-php81": "*",
+		"symfony/polyfill-ctype": "*",
+		"symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "*"
+    },
 	"scripts": {
 		"lint": "find . -name \\*.php -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 php -l",
 		"pre-autoload-dump": "Aws\\Script\\Composer\\Composer::removeUnusedServices"