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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:31:58 +0100
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Subject: Setting to disable the "Undefined array index" warning
From: nicolas@gestixi.com (Nicolas BADIA)

Hi,

As it is explained in this ticket https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=3D81417 =
we use to check if a property exists by accessing it directly like we do =
in JavaScript.

Personally, I subscribe to this coding style and we use it all over our =
codebase (more than 130 000 lines of PHP code). When it became a notice, =
we disabled them, but now that it is a warning, it is a lot more =
problematic for us=E2=80=A6 We can=E2=80=99t even use the last version =
of PHP Debug for VSCode.

As I=E2=80=99m not ready to spend weeks upgrading our codebase because =
our coding style is not supported by the community, I=E2=80=99m looking =
at alternatives.

The more obvious and simple for me would be to add a setting in php.ini =
to allow this. So I=E2=80=99d like to know if it is something you would =
support.

If not, I guess I will have to fork PHP, but this will complicate a lot =
our deployment process and make our code not portable. As I believe we =
are not the same in this case, I hope you will support the addition of a =
setting=E2=80=A6

Thanks in advance for considering this.

Best regards,

Nicolas=