Introducing PHP 7 – a revolution in the way we deliver applications that power everything from websites and mobile to enterprises and the cloud. This is the most important change for PHP since the release of PHP 5 in 2004, bringing explosive performance improvements, drastically reduced memory consumption, and a host of brand-new language features to make your apps soar.
Thanks to the new Zend Engine 3.0, your apps see up to 2x faster performance and 50% better memory consumption than PHP 5.6, allowing you to serve more concurrent users without adding any hardware. Designed and refactored for today’s workloads, PHP 7 is the ultimate choice for web developers today.
PHP 7 is a major release of PHP programming language and is touted to be a revolution in the way web applications can be developed and delivered for mobile to enterprises and the cloud.
PHP 7 uses new Zend Engine 3.0 to improve application performance almost twice and 50% better … Read more
Lot of features added to PHP 7, the most significant ones are mentioned below −
Improved performance − Having PHPNG code merged in PHP7, it is twice as fast as PHP 5.
Lower Memory Consumption − Optimized PHP 7 utilizes lesser resource.
Scalar type declarations − Now parameter and return … Read more
In PHP 7, introduced Scalar type declarations, has been . Scalar type declaration has two options −
coercive – coercive is default mode and need not to be specified.
strict – strict mode has to explicitly hinted.
It support gollowing types for function parameters,
int,float,bool,string,interfaces,array,
callable.