Difference between constructor property promotion in PHP 7’s v/s PHP 8’s / Magento 2

Magento 2.4.4 finally released has a big feature — support for PHP 8! This new version of PHP introduces a feature called Constructor Property Promotion, which can greatly simplify your Magento 2 code.

Naturally, I’m very happy with the constructor property promotion declaration we can see the code difference below of two versions.

So in PHP 7.x

class View
{
    protected $resultForwardFactory;

    private $request;

    private $pageHelper;

    public function __construct(
        Context $context,
        RequestInterface $request,
        PageHelper $pageHelper,
        ForwardFactory $resultForwardFactory
    ) {
        $this->request = $request;
        $this->pageHelper = $pageHelper;
        $this->resultForwardFactory = $resultForwardFactory;
    }
}

In PHP 8.x

class View
{
    public function __construct(
        protected RequestInterface $request, 
        private PageHelper $pageHelper, 
        private ForwardFactory $resultForwardFactory,
    ) {}
}

In short: property promotion allows you to combine class fields, constructor definition and variable assignments all into one syntax, in the construct parameter list.

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