Fix#4600. String incrementation through the `++` operator is deprecated in Php 8.5. Because we make use of that operator to iterate through columns, we are particularly hard hit by that change - unaddressed, it causes over 2,000 errors in our test suite! It is, fortunately, not as difficult as I feared to correct. Replacing the `++` operator with a call to new method `StringHelper::stringIncrement` in 79 statements scattered over 31 source modules (in src, samples, test, and infra) eliminates all the messages in the test suite. It is possible that others are lurking, but I don't know a systematic way of determining if there are others. We'll stick with this for now, and deal with any others as they show up.
This PR will be applied to the master, release390, and release222 branches. It will not be applied to the release210 or release1291 branches, which will now accept security changes only.
Phpstan hasn't identified any errors in Samples in a long time. But, as it turns out, one particular error is suppressed:
```
Variable $helper might not be defined.
```
This error would be generated by almost all samples, and the errors that it suppresses will become problematic if we move to Level 10. We are not yet committed to doing that, but it is pretty easy to write a script to change the samples so that error no longer happens, and there isn't really any reason to delay doing so. The results of that script constitute this PR.
When the Dynamic Array PR #3962 was introduced, it left the default as Return Array as Value. At some point, the default should be changed to Return Array as Array. This would, of course, be a breaking change, one which will not be part of Release 4. However, it will possibly be part of Release 5.
Rather than relying on the default setting, this PR explicitly sets Return Array as Value when tests require that setting. This will make it easier to identify potential breaks when the default is changed. The entire test suite will now succeed with either setting as default.
In making these changes, a few minor problems were discovered with how Array as Array is handled. These are fixed with this PR.
The samples have become unwieldy when running them from a browser. In particular, the drop-down lists are fixed size with no scrolling, and many of them are now just too large. I have moved all the Calculation samples up a level, and broken several categories (Basic, Chart, DateTime, Engineering, Financial, and Reader) into several pieces.
Convert-Online (now found in the Engineering category) had a number of different problems which are now resolved. It is the only member with any significant code change.
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