New Features of PHP 7
Ravi Bhadauria
Teacher by Choice and by Heart. A Multimedia Professional with 23yrs of experience.
PHP is the most versatile language in the world of web development. It is the free, efficient and powerful language of the server-side and helps in making web pages better.
PHP 7 is a big release for the PHP community as it has come with some great changes after more than a decade.
Here are some amazing new features of PHP 7 :
1. Improvement in speed :
It is twice as fast as PHP 5, this is because of PHPNG that is installed in it.
2. Lower memory consumption :
PHP 7 consumes less memory without compromising the performance of the system. Hence, providing even better performance.
3. Scalar Type Declarations :
PHP 7 is more versatile and has increased better readability of code because of this feature. Now since the scalar type declarations are used which have enabled strict requirements while writing any code and making the documentation of code better.
Though this can be forged because these declarations are non-strict.
4. 64 - bit support :
Now the architecture machines are incorporated with a 64-bit support system in them for better performance.
5. Better Error Handling Technique :
Earlier, if an error occurs the whole script used to stop. But this new release has made the handling of error better as now the exception is thrown rather than stopping the whole script.