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PHP 7 New Features

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LinkedIn Learning
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English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Duration & workload

1-2 hours
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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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