---
title: "PHP updates DOM API"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-updates-dom-api-dxyupcwlc
source_url: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3612206/php-updates-dom-api.html
type: article
source: "InfoWorld"
published: 2024-11-25T21:29:33.932Z
updated: 2024-12-08T21:04:21.271Z
tags: ["webdev", "open-source", "php"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 27
comments: 2
language: en
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# PHP updates DOM API

**[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 2 min read · 27 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

PHP 8.4.1 introduces an updated DOM API with standards-compliant support for parsing HTML5 documents, improved performance, better syntax, and enhanced type safety. New features include the `BcMath\Number` object for arbitrary precision number operations, controls for property scope access, and support for lazy objects.

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Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@sam7work** · 0 upvotes

> looking forward to more examples and benchmarks, php 8.4 certainly is making the news :-)

**@terceroainuler** · 0 upvotes

> finally it can parse html 5

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