After eight Release Candidates, finally PHP 7.0, major version is out. The PHP development team announced the official release of new version of PHP on 3rd December 2015. This marks the beginning of new PHP 7.0 series. The all new PHP 7.0 and its features are so amazing and exciting that we decided to dedicate another complete post about it. PHP 7.0 Optimization, a major release, is now available after eight Release Candidates, ushering in a new series with enhanced features.
The release of PHP 7.0 Optimization is a result of almost two years journey of development. It marks the rise of new generation of PHP that has an enormous potential.
Following are the features to look upon that is going to boost the development process to the next level:
- Improved performance, as it has twice the speed of PHP 5.6
- Abstract Syntax Tree
- Significantly reduced memory usage
- Many of the fatal errors has been converted to Exceptions
- Consistent support of 64-bit
- Secure random number generator
- Scalar Type Declarations
- Anonymous classes
- Eliminated unsupported SAPIs and extensions
- Zero cost asserts
- Improved exception hierarchy
For source downloads of PHP 7.0 please visit http://www.php.net/downloads.php
For the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes consult the migration guide at http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.php
Why Choose Krify for PHP Web Development
Krify has expertise in development of web system and applications. We provide custom web solutions in PHP. We also offer responsive HTML5 and CSS3 website design and development.
Our development team is all set to develop innovative IT solutions using the all new PHP 7.0.
