Top 5 New Features of PHP 7 For Every PHP Developer

It is interesting to know how PHP comes into existence. PHP developed in 1994 under the supervision of Rasmus Lerdorf. He was very concern about his personal webpage, hence he creates several Common Gateway Interface(CGI) to maintain his webpage. These are developed in C languages while extending his work with web form in which user can enter data that sends to the server side, it helps transfer the data to databases.

This is earlier known as PHP (Personal Home Page). Language name later on changes to PHP - Hypertext Pre-processor by changing the parser and it uses to frame the PHP 3 base in 1997. It's a server-side scripting is provided by embedded in HTML.

Interesting Fact About PHP 7

As you know after the PHP version 5.6, then there is a direct release of PHP7. The reason behind this is that many of the implementations that will be in 6 are already done in PHP 5 versions. To avoid the confusion behind the lifeless project.

There are enormous options are available in PHP, but every programmer needs to grasp the base features mentioned in this article in order to become a PHP expert.

Top 5 New Feature in latest PHP7:

• Speed- In the latest version of PHP7 has much more speed enhancement. It is the fastest language with the improvement and has lot new feature as comparing PHP 5.6, with this speed it creates double speed increment in server response times.

• Type Declaration - In PHP does not need to declare any kind of data type to the code because of which it reduces various effort worthy works. It helps to ease the tasks and avoid type castings. It helps you make the code easily understandable to read and write.

• Error Handling- From past to handle fatal errors, now is being infeasible in PHP. It discontinues the script only when a fatal error occurs rather requesting the error handler.
  

Exception handling and Error handling both these have the brand new throwable class implementations.

• New Operators- In PHP7 new operators are included for better experiences and good user interfaces.
  

Newly introduced operators are:

1) Spaceship Operator: It denoted by the <=> operator, which have a nice combination of less than, greater than and equals to an operator. It uses for these three operations collectively and gives a result with three different answers i.e. -1 for left is less than right, 0 if left and right equals to each other and return 1 for the value left side is greater than right. It operates by comparing each operation from left to right one by one. The most important and common usage is in sorting.

2) Null Coalesce Operator: It helps to assign the value to the operand if the value is null it directly set the default value written by the coder otherwise If the value is not null then it assigns the user-defined value. It denoted as a double question mark (??).

• CSPRNG functions: It is abbreviated as Cryptographically Secure Pseudo Random Number Generator in PHP. It is easy, simple to understand, reliable and efficient with great features. It includes random number generating ease by securing the OTPs, random password generations and many more. It uses to generate Random Bytes, Random Integer etc.
  

There are many features that are added to this version and many removed as well. These are the features which are added into PHP7. It is more secure as per the security point of view. Exiting features with simple coding is provided by this language. It is a server-side scripting language which uses embedded HTML into this. The latest Changes come in new PHP 7 is related to speed, type declarations, Error handling and the introduction of new operators like Space operators, Null coalesce operators.

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