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Doc Bug #80494 DOMElement::remove not documented
Submitted: 2020-12-08 11:19 UTC Modified: 2023-11-12 16:56 UTC
From: contact at perryrylance dot com Assigned: nielsdos (profile)
Status: Closed Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 8.0.0 OS: Windows 10
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2020-12-08 11:19 UTC] contact at perryrylance dot com 
Description:
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I have a library which extends DOMElement.

My library adds DOMElement::remove for convenience.

After installing PHP 8 my library creates a fatal error.

The function definition I have for ExampleElement::remove does not match DOMElement::remove.

Not a biggie - I can simply change the function definition to match, *however*, the PHP manual does not document this function.

Test script:
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<?php

class ExampleElement extends DOMElement
{
    public function remove()
    {
    }
}

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 [2020-12-08 11:28 UTC] beberlei@php.net 
Right, this was part of the DOM Living Standard RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/dom_living_standard_api

I haven't gotten around to the documentation part yet :-( The signature is without paraemters:

public function delete();
 [2020-12-08 11:28 UTC] beberlei@php.net 
I am sorry, i meant:

public function remove();
 [2020-12-08 11:30 UTC] beberlei@php.net 
Sorry, I am having a bad day, the problem is not the parameters, but that the PHP 8 api has "void" as return type, so my last attempt, this time its right :-)

public function remove(): void;

As a side-note, PHP 8 now contains so called stubs, that show the right signature directly in PHP code. See the DOM Extension and remove here: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/dom/php_dom.stub.php#L231
 [2020-12-08 11:43 UTC] contact at perryrylance dot com 
Wonderful, thank you so much!

Looks like I can simply remove this from my implementation :)

Thanks again!
 [2021-05-11 06:11 UTC] contact at perryrylance dot com 
Hi Benjamin

I see that more methods have been added to DOMElement, which is great.

I'd like to bring my library up to date, drop support for PHP < 7.0.0 and add return types and matching function signatures to your implementation.

I do have one request - could I perhaps ask that the functions remove, before, after and friends could possibly return $this?

My library facilitates method chaining, changing some of these functions to return void could break older projects.

If this is at all possible I'd massively appreciate it.

Thank you.
 [2021-11-09 12:05 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Package: Documentation problem +Package: DOM XML related
 [2021-11-09 12:05 UTC] cmb@php.net 
> I do have one request - could I perhaps ask that the functions
> remove, before, after and friends could possibly return $this?

I think we should stick with the HTML standard, see
<https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-childnode>.
 [2023-11-12 16:56 UTC] nielsdos@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: nielsdos
 [2023-11-12 16:56 UTC] nielsdos@php.net 
The fix for this bug has been committed.
If you are still experiencing this bug, try to check out latest source from https://github.com/php/php-src and re-test.
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

Documented now
 
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