What's New in PHP 7

Description

Over 11 years after the release of PHP 5.0, the technology that powers the vast majority of websites has received a major update. This course will get you up to speed on the new release, assisting you in making the most of the new features and alerting you to changes that will break backwards compatibility and possibly your legacy code.

Syllabus :

1. Getting Started

•   History of PHP 
•   PHP 6 
•   PHP's RFC System 
•   System Setup 
•   Testing PHP 7 

 

2. What's New

•   Type Declarations 
•   The Null Coalesce Operator 
•   The Spaceship Operator 
•   The Splat Operator 
•   Anonymous Classes 
•   Whitelisting Unserialization 
•   Session Initialization Options 
•   Miscellaneous Features 
•   New in PHP 7.1 

 

3. What's Changed

•   Octal Literals 
•   String Parsing 
•   Division by Zero 
•   Uniform Variable Syntax 
•   list() Behavior 
•   Error Handling 
•   E_STRICT 
•   Deprecated Features 
•   Removed Features 
•   Changed in PHP 7.1 

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