Thursday, July 9, 2015

PHP7 whats new ?

The name for the next major PHP version has been finalized! The winning proposal is to call the latest major version PHP 7.

With the planned date for PHP 7’s release rapidly approaching, the internals group is hard at work trying to fix our beloved language as much as possible by both removing artifacts and adding some long desired features.

The latest PHP version will be released later this year

The PHP 7 Timeline RFC was approved in a near unanimous vote, and aims to release PHP 7 in October 2015.
Time line

PHP Space Ships

PHP 7 will introduce a new operator <=> conveniently

Add a new operator (expr) <=> (expr), it returns 0 if both operands are equal, 1 if the left is greater, and -1 if the right is greater. It uses exactly the same comparison rules as used by our existing comparison operators: <, <=, ==, >= and >.

[DEMO]


Return Type Declarations & Scalar Type Hints

 
PHP 7 will allow developers to declare what kind of return type a function is expected to have – similar to argument Type Hints.
In addition, argument type hints and the new return-type declarations now support new scalar types, allowing developers to denote that they’re expecting strings, floats, ints or bools to be passed or returned

PHP 7 Performance


PHP 7 is based on the PHPNG project (PHP Next-Gen), that was led by Zend to speed up PHP applications.

PHP 7 is 2X faster

Since PHPNG was open sourced and later merged into PHP 7, its performance more than doubled in many cases, and we’re continuing to improve it all the time.

What is PHPNG



phpng's key benefits are around performance and memory utilization. Detailed performance benchmarks against previous (and current) versions of PHP, as well as hhvm,

What is hhvm

HHVM is an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the development flexibility that PHP provides.




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