Incompatible return type of EPDOStatement\EPDOStatement::bindParam

[yonicsurny]

Hi,

I'm facing the following issue when using EPDOStatement:

During inheritance of PDOStatement: Uncaught Whoops\Exception\ErrorException: Return type of EPDOStatement\EPDOStatement::bindParam($param, &$value, $datatype = PDO::PARAM_STR, $length = 0, $driverOptions = false) should either be compatible with PDOStatement::bindParam(string|int $param, mixed &$var, int $type = PDO::PARAM_STR, int $maxLength = 0, mixed $driverOptions = null): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /Users/myuser/Documents/Projects/myapp/vendor/noahheck/e_pdostatement/src/EPDOStatement.php:80
Stack trace:
#0 /Users/myuser/Documents/Projects/myapp/vendor/noahheck/e_pdostatement/src/EPDOStatement.php(25): Whoops\Run->handleError(8192, 'Return type of ...', '/Users/myuser/...', 80)
#1 /Users/myuser/Documents/Projects/myapp/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php(571): include('/Users/myuser/...')
#2 /Users/myuser/Documents/Projects/myapp/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php(428): Composer\Autoload\includeFile('/Users/myuser/...')
#3 [internal function]: Composer\Autoload\ClassLoader->loadClass('EPDOStatement\\E...')
#4 /Users/myuser/Documents/Projects/myapp/src/php/Database/DBConnection.php(21): PDO->setAttribute(13, Array)
[...]

I'm using Whoops for catching exceptions while in "debug" mode on my site.

I'm using PHP 8.1.11 and the version 2.3.1 of the package via composer.

Here is the content of the DBConnection class:

namespace App\Database;

use App\Utils\Config;
use PDO;

class DBConnection {

    /**
     * @var PDO
     */
    private static $pdo;

  public static function getPDO(): PDO {
    if (!isset(self::$pdo)) {
      $dsn = "mysql:host=" . $_ENV['DB_HOST'] . ";dbname=" . $_ENV['DB_NAME'];
      $user = $_ENV['DB_USER'];
      $passwd = $_ENV['DB_PASSWORD'];
      self::$pdo = new PDO($dsn, $user, $passwd);
      if (Config::isDebugEnabled()) {
        self::$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_STATEMENT_CLASS, array("EPDOStatement\EPDOStatement", [self::$pdo]));
      }
    }
    return self::$pdo;
  }
}

What could be the issue?
Thank you in advance for your support.

[noahheck]

Sorry for the late reply @yonicsurny (I've been away from work activities for a while).

This looks like an issue with the PHP version and a change in the bindParam method's signature. I haven't updated my packages for php-8 support ( 😞 ) yet.