Fix PHP 8.4 and 8.5 deprecations

[austinderrick]

Summary

Fixes the PHP 8.4 and 8.5 deprecations.

Fixes

• PHP 8.5 — null as array offset (Using null as an array offset is deprecated, use an empty string instead):
  • src/Config/Repository.php — afterLoad[$namespace] (read/isset/write) now uses $namespace ?? '' (a null/global namespace is a valid case). (This is the one reported.)
  • src/Halcyon/Processors/Processor.php — $items[$fileName] / [$fileName => …] now uses $fileName ?? '' (array_get($result, 'fileName') may return null).
• PHP 8.4 — implicit-nullable parameter:
  • src/Console/Traits/ProcessesQuery.php — int $limit = null → ?int $limit = null.
• PHP 8.1+ (also deprecated on 8.5), removed in PHP 9 — strftime():
  • src/Html/FormBuilder.php::selectMonth() — replaced strftime() with date(); the $format default changes from '%B' to 'F' (date() syntax). Default output (full month names) is unchanged; callers passing custom strftime-style formats must switch to date() syntax.
• Test fix (for green CI): tests/Scheduling/ScheduleListCommandTest — updated the invokable-class schedule:list expectation (modern Laravel renders the bare class name without the Closure at: prefix). This was a pre-existing failure on wip/1.3 unrelated to the deprecations.

Testing

• vendor/bin/phpunit on PHP 8.5.5: 711 tests, 0 failures, 0 Storm-source PHP deprecations.
• vendor/bin/phpunit on PHP 8.4.14: 711 tests, 0 failures, 0 Storm-source PHP deprecations.
• phpcs: clean on the changed files.

Out of scope

• vendor/assetic/framework triggers a $http_response_header deprecation on 8.5 — that's a third-party dependency, not Storm.
• PHPStan currently reports pre-existing errors on wip/1.3 (a larastan-version drift, in the relation generics / baseline) that are unrelated to this PR; they are addressed for the Laravel 13 line in Support Laravel 13 #228.

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