5.x - fix broken return types - adjust minimum php version to 8.0 since no 8.1 features are being used

[r4ndsen]

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[Morthy]

It would be great to see this merged because this is currently preventing us from upgrading to PHP 8.1 in our project

[harikt]

@Morthy what feature in this PR is preventing you to upgrade to PHP 8.1 ?

Looks all tests in 8.1 is working https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Sql/runs/4577260986?check_suite_focus=true

[Morthy]

@Morthy what feature in this PR is preventing you to upgrade to PHP 8.1 ?

Looks all tests in 8.1 is working https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Sql/runs/4577260986?check_suite_focus=true

This PR fixes the fatal TypeErrors that occur due to the wrong return types present in the 4.x and 5.x branch. If the 3.x branch is used, there are instead many deprecation notices due to incompatibility with the PDO methods. So basically 4.x and above are unusable on PHP 8.1 if you have any case like doing a fetchObject() call that returns no rows.

[harikt]

@Morthy ok, I will look into this.

[harikt]

Note : In the mean time if you want to push your code to 8.1 you can also do something like in example https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#loading-a-package-from-a-vcs-repository .

[harikt]

Hi all,

Thanks for your contributions.

I have tagged 5.0.1 .