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LinkedIn Learning

PHP 7 New Features

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn about the new features, improvements, and changes in PHP 7, including type declarations, new operators, and anonymous classes.

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Kevin Skoglund

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