WIP - Enhance type safety and comply to PHP 8.4

[anasgets111]

• Updated method signatures to enforce stricter type checks and return types in various drivers and core classes.
• Improved error handling by ensuring methods return appropriate values (e.g., null or false) when encountering issues.
• Enhanced readability by restructuring conditional statements and using null coalescing where applicable.
• Added type hints for parameters and return types in methods to improve code clarity and maintainability.
• Refined logic in methods to ensure consistent behavior and prevent potential errors.
• Updated compatibility checks and helper functions to handle edge cases more gracefully.
• first batch