2016
Lynda
Kevin Skoglund
1:04
English

PHP 7 is the first major release of PHP in more than 11 years. This course by expert instructor Kevin Skoglund provides an overview of the new features, improvements, and changes in PHP 7. Learn about new tools to help write smarter code, and the key changes you need to watch for to ensure your existing PHP code works correctly after an upgrade.

Introduction
Welcome
About PHP 7
How to upgrade to PHP 7
1. Major Features
Better performance
Scalar type declarations
Return type declarations
Combined comparison operator
Null coalescing operator
Anonymous classes
2. Improvements
Arrays as constants
Unicode codepoint escape syntax
Uniform variable syntax
Catchable exceptions and errors
Integer division with intdiv()
Filtered unserialize()
Grouped imports with use()
Less frequently used improvements
3. Deprecations and Deletions
PHP 4 constructors
Alternative PHP tags
Time zone warnings
PHP 5 deprecations
Conclusion
Next steps

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