Rob Allen: Testing my ZF1 app on PHP7
Rob Allen has a new post to his site showing the results of some testing he did when running a Zend Framework v1 application on PHP 7. Zend Framework 1 is still actively maintained and we fully intend...
View ArticleNikita Popov: Internal value representation in PHP 7 - Part 2
Nikita Popov has posted the second part of a series looking at how PHP 7 represents values internally. In the first part of the series the focus was on the major change from PHP 5: the zval updates...
View ArticleAaron Piotrowski: Throwable Exceptions and Errors in PHP 7
Aaron Piotrowski has a new post to his site talking about a feature of the next major release of the PHP language (PHP 7) around error and exception handling: working with throwable exceptions and...
View ArticleDavey Shafik: Changes to Engine Exceptions in PHP 7.0alpha2+
Davey Shafik has posted about some changes in engine exceptions in the latest alpha of PHP 7 (alpha2+), mainly a small change to how things are named. While updating my PHP 7 talk "What to Expect When...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell: PHP 7 Benchmarks
Lorna Mitchell has posted some preliminary PHP7 benchmarks from the current alpha release (alpha2). Good news - it's fast....very fast. If you know anything at all about PHP7, you probably know it's...
View ArticleParagon Initiative: How to Safely Generate Random Strings and Integers in PHP
The Paragon Initiative blog has posted a guide to what they see as a way to safely generate random strings and integers in PHP applications. Generating useful random data is a fairly common task for a...
View ArticleDavey Shafik: Class Constants, How Do They Work? (Or: You Learn Something New...
Davey Shafik has posted a quick article to his site talking about class constants and something new he learned about them (and how it relates to the uniform variable syntax handling in PHP7)....
View ArticleAmasty.com: PHP 7 and script languages future: insights from lead Zend.com...
The Amasty.com site has posted an article featuring an interview with Dmitry Stogov about his background and the next major release of PHP - PHP 7. PHP is used on 81.9% of websites all over the world...
View ArticleDigital Ocean Blog: Getting Ready for PHP 7
The Digital Ocean blog has posted a guide to help you get ready for PHP7, the next major release of the PHP language. There's a lot of new functionality and changes coming with the release along with...
View ArticleCommunity News: PHP 7.0.0 Beta 2 Tagged
According to this post on Reddit.com (and this NEWS file update) the latest beta of PHP 7.0.0, beta 2, has officially been tagged. Fixes include updates in several different areas of the codebase:...
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