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PHP 7 Released

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Re: PHP 7 Released

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Post by DigitalSea »

Probably one of the biggest releases since 5 in my opinion. Scalar and return type declarations being added in are a couple of massive additions. For a language that used to cop a lot of flak, PHP sure has grown to become a mature and quite decent language.

Re: PHP 7 Released

#3

Post by maweki »

DigitalSea wrote: post #2

Probably one of the biggest releases since 5 in my opinion. Scalar and return type declarations being added in are a couple of massive additions. For a language that used to cop a lot of flak, PHP sure has grown to become a mature and quite decent language.

by copying all the python features :D

Re: PHP 7 Released

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Post by sneak »

DigitalSea wrote: post #2

Probably one of the biggest releases since 5 in my opinion. Scalar and return type declarations being added in are a couple of massive additions. For a language that used to cop a lot of flak, PHP sure has grown to become a mature and quite decent language.

No, PHP isn't "quite decent". It's still a steaming turd, it's just been polished with a whole bunch of features.

Re: PHP 7 Released

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Post by trm42 »

PHP 7 makes life a lot better for PHP devs in many ways but one awesome thing is it obsoletes bunch of out-of-date tutorials by finally removing the old Mysql extension \o/

http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.removed-exts-sapis.php

I actually met a young aspiring web developer who still learned DB-access with mysql_* functions. I urged him to switch to a sane framework like Laravel. Oh boy he was happy in a month and learned bunch of best practices quickly.

Re: PHP 7 Released

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Post by miseg »

maweki wrote: post #3
DigitalSea wrote: post #2

Probably one of the biggest releases since 5 in my opinion. Scalar and return type declarations being added in are a couple of massive additions. For a language that used to cop a lot of flak, PHP sure has grown to become a mature and quite decent language.

by copying all the python features :D

By learning from Python's best practices :)

Re: PHP 7 Released

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Post by RohithMeethal »

I wish every PHP developer would reread the docs and start using new features available instead of just continuing with what they know already just because it works. And of course if there was any way to remove all those old tutorials out there.
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