PHP 7 New Features You Must Know
Ashish Jain
AVP - Product Management | Digital Transformation, Gen AI and Consulting | Azure | Salesforce | AEM | Agile, Scrum | PMP? | CSM? | Ex- Infosys, EY, IIM Lucknow
The power-packed PHP 7 version was initially released in 2015. There is a buzz around the community of web developers because the #PHP7 stable version recently released on January 4, 2018. Because of its amazing features and other capabilities, it became the first choice of every web developer.
Now you’re definitely up to why PHP 7 is so popular and you will find solid reasons to upgrade. We want to share PHP 7 new features you must know which are:
Faster
The recent version of PHP has few bugs which made process bit a slow. With this upgrade PHP developers community brilliantly modified its codebase and decreased memory consumption. The performance it automatically improved with their effort. According to people who have shared their data which is
promising & shows the 2x increase in speed while working with larger projects like Drupal and WordPress.
Load Capacity
A new branch PHPNG is created using Zend engine to increase upload capacity in PHP. Now the smaller hosts can adopt #PHP7 easily. The hosts are also capable of hosting more customers using the equal hardware.
Type Declarations
PHP is weakly typed language and you don't need to specify the type of variable. PHP does not need you to declare the data type. Because of type declarations, you can add Float into String with no error in the result.
Impressive Error Handling
Handling fatal errors was very difficult for PHP Developers. This kind of errors can be replaced with the new Engine Exceptions. Also, PHP returns the fatal errors if the exception is not taken.
Fit for Mobile Devices
Like we have told already, it offers native local threat storage, decreased memory usage and execution engine enhancements, and native local threat storage. These features made it a perfect choice for mobile devices. The websites made with #PHP7 will perform fast in low-end devices as it has the capabilities to manage more traffic with the corresponding server supplies.
Superior Performance
PHP 7 came as the best for load taking and data processing than its preview versions. After performing multiple tests for comparison, developers found that the #PHP7 enables the system to execute requests twice than PHP 5.6 and 36% more requests than HHVM while running on different platforms.
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