A developer reflects on using PHP 8.4's property hooks for a year, explaining their benefits and practical applications in code.
A practical review of PHP 8.4's Property Hooks feature, covering get and set hooks with code examples after real-world use.
The author explains why their PHP framework, Tempest, will require PHP 8.4 as a minimum version, citing future-proofing, community advancement, and managing adoption.
PHP 8.4 introduces syntactic sugar allowing method/property chaining on new objects without extra parentheses, streamlining code.
