Voting Opens on RFC to Allow Property Writes on Objects Held in Constants

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · July 25, 2026 curated by Sönke

Khaled Alam has opened the vote on a PHP RFC that would permit modifying properties of objects referenced by class or global constants. Voting runs for two weeks and closes on August 8, 2026.

Khaled Alam has opened the voting phase for the RFC "Allow Object Property Writes on Objects Referenced by Constants" on the PHP internals list.

The RFC, documented on the PHP wiki at wiki.php.net/rfc/const_object_property_write, proposes to allow writing to properties of objects that are referenced by constants.

The vote follows the standard two-week period and closes on Saturday, August 8, 2026, at 23:59 UTC. The author thanked discussion participants, noting that feedback from the discussion phase helped improve the proposal.

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