Posts tagged with php7
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
PHP 8.1 is currently in active development and will probably be released somewhere around the end of November 2021. We already know some features, changes and deprecations, so let's go through them one by one.
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Did you know that since PHP 7.4, it's possible to use the spread operator in arrays? 👨🏻🔬 pic.twitter.com/Wg6Ouc5OYj
— NUNO MADURO (@enunomaduro) April 10, 2020
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In PHP 7.4 a widely requested feature landed: arrow function. In this blogpost I'd like to show you how I like to use them.
Did you know that the null coalescing assignment operator in #PHP 7.4 can be used to make memoizing stuff a little more clean? pic.twitter.com/SWWJEXQBLx
— Brent (@brendt_gd) January 16, 2020
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Thanks to the improved type variance in PHP 7.4, the `self` return type hint is now safe to use in a class that you expect to be overridden (happens a lot in the packages we create)
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) December 3, 2019
Demo: https://t.co/7vRTaOwRhD
RFC: https://t.co/1RpnFIjlKC#php pic.twitter.com/SfAaxRDt4m
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In PHP 7.4, two new features were introduced that I'd like to use in my packages and projects: short closures and typed properties. Even though an IDE can help with converting to the new syntax, I'd don't want to manually hunt down all the places where the new syntax can be used. Lucky there's a tool that can do this work automatically.
At the PHP Russia conference, Nikita Popov presented all the nice changes coming to PHP 7.4.
Brent wrote another nice post on PHP. This time on the upcoming typed hints feature of PHP 7.4.
Typed class properties were added in PHP 7.4 and provide a major improvement to PHP's type system. These changes are fully opt-in and backwards compatible. In this post we'll look at the feature in-depth.
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Short closures are coming to PHP 7.4. In this blogpost, my colleague Brent exaplins what they look like and how they can be used
Short closures, also called arrow functions, are a way of writing shorter functions in PHP. This notation is useful when passing closures to functions like array_map or array_filter.
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Brent lists the goodies coming to PHP 7.4, which will be released in december. This is going to be an epic release!
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Exciting times in PHP land. Nikita Popov, Levi Morrison and Bob Weinand have officially proposed a concrete implementation for arrow functions.
Anonymous functions in PHP can be quite verbose, even when they only perform a simple operation. Partly this is due to a large amount of syntactic boilerplate, and party due to the need to manually import used variables. This makes code using simple closures hard to read and understand. This RFC proposes a more concise syntax for this pattern. ... Short closures are critically overdue, and at some point we'll have to make a compromise here, rather than shelving the topic for another few years.
Let's hope this one gets accepted!
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PHP 7.4, which will be released around December 2019, will bring a couple of nice features such as typed properties, preloading, improved type variance, ... In a new post on his blog my colleague Brent gives a nice overview of what to expect
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The people at Kinsta published a nice overview of all changes coming to PHP 7.3 which will be released in December.
In this post, we’ll provide an overview of the features and changes that we personally consider most relevant. But you can always check the full list of features, changes and bug fixes in PHP 7.3 upgrade notes and PHP 7.3 Requests For Comments.
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Ayesh Karunaratne made a good summary of the new stuff coming in PHP 7.3 which will be released by the end of the year.
This is a live document (until PHP 7.3 is released as generally available) on changes and new features to expect in PHP 7.3, with code examples, relevant RFCs, and the rationale behind them, in their chronological order.
https://ayesh.me/Upgrade-PHP-7.3
The trailing comma in function and method calls seems nice!
???? Annonymous classes in PHP 7 are perfect for small inline view models. Makes the view so much cleaner! pic.twitter.com/z9b4UKytk9
— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) 20 november 2017
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Sebastian De Deyne wrote a cool blogpost on array destructuring in PHP. Yet another reason to stay up to date with the latest and greatest PHP version.
PHP 7.1 introduced a new syntax for the list() function. I've never really seen too much list() calls in the wild, but it enables you to write some pretty neat stuff.This post is a primer of list() and it's PHP 7.1 short notation, and an overview of some use cases I've been applying them to.
Matthieu Napoli, author of PHP-DI and externals.io, wrote a post on how you can use anonymous classes to quickly create mocks, spies and fixtures.
Anonymous classes were added to PHP 7. This article intends to show how useful they can be for writing tests.
According to Fabien Potencier, lead of the Symfony project, the next major version of Symfony, to be released at then end of 2017, will require PHP 7.
#Symfony 4 (to released in November 2017) will drop #PHP 5 support... So, #Twig 2 stable should probably supports PHP 7 only, right?
— Fabien Potencier (@fabpot) December 16, 2016
But Laravel will drop PHP 5 support even sooner. Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, announced that Laravel 5.5, to be released in June 2017, will leave PHP 5 behind.
Laravel 5.5 in July 2017 will require PHP 7+ ?
— Taylor Otwell (@taylorotwell) December 16, 2016
On multiple occasions Taylor et co. have stated that they don't like the strictness that things like scalar and return type hints bring to the table. So I don't expect to see them appear much in Laravel codebase. Smaller syntax improvements like for example the null coalescing operator will almost certainly be used.
A few weeks ago Jordi Boggiano reported that only a miserable 3% of all packages present on Packagist require PHP 7. The best thing about Symfony and Laravel dropping PHP 5 support is that it will send a strong message throughout the entire PHP ecosystem that you shouldn't bother with PHP 5 code anymore. When creating new projects and packages more developers will target PHP 7 as a minimum version as well.
For our PHP and Laravel packages we left PHP 5 behind as soon as PHP 7 was available. Our packages already make extensive use of return type hints, anonymous classes and the null coalescing operator to create more readable (and thus more maintainable) code.
(Fun Scary fact: Wordpress only requires PHP 5.2 ?)
With PHP 7.1 scheduled to be released next week, it's probably a good idea to go over the new features is offers.
The newest version of PHP – 7.1.0 – is already at RC6 (Release Candidate 6) status, which means it will be out soon. After a huge update that took PHP from 5.6 straight to 7.0 increasing speeds considerably, PHP is now focusing on core language features that will help all of us write better code. In this article I’ll take a look at the major additions and features of PHP 7.1.0 which is just around the bend.
Jordi Boggiano shared some new stats on PHP version usage he collects via Packagist.
A few observations: 5.3 and 5.4 at this point are gone as far as I am concerned! 5.5 still has a good presence but lost 12% in 6 months which is awesome. 5.6 basically stayed stable as I suspect people jumped from 5.5 to 7 directly probably when upgrading Ubuntu LTS. 7.0 gained 15% and is now close to being the most deployed version, 1 year after release! That should definitely encourage more libraries to require it IMO, and I hope it is good encouragement to PHP internals folks as well to see that people actually upgrade these days :)
It's very cool that PHP 7 is being adopted so quickly. I suspected that it would go down this way. Unfortunately the majority of package creators are still targeting PHP 5. Jordi has this to say on that.
As I wrote in the last update: I would like to encourage everyone to be a bit more aggressive in bumping PHP requirements when tagging new major releases of their libs. Don't forget that the old code does not go away, it's still there to be used by people using legacy PHP versions.
Amen!
Read Jordi's blogpost here: https://seld.be/notes/php-versions-stats-2016-2-edition