Does anyone remember what happened to PHP 6? No? Great, because even Zend lab wishes they hadn’t brought PHP 6 to the market. Well it definitely brought complete Unicode support to the PHP core, as well as some very useless add on, that were highly criticized because of their functionality.
The grand PHP 6 was of the modern times, where emojis were used as functions and variable names, smirk, smirk. It further went one step to allow international string functionality, where you get to recognize complex languages like Chinese in both upper and lower case. Still, to think people had to transfer all codebase and make it compatible with an over illustrated software was a lengthy process, meanwhile PHP 5 was getting slow due to negligence. Yes, a lot of effort gone to waste and Zend labs spend 10 years to produce their newest product and it’s worth it.
The latest version is called PHP 7 because no one wants it to be remembered as a version of PHP 6. There are many websites that have really shifted to PHP 7 until now and they are approving of the latest technology, saying that it cuts down a lot of cost. PHP 7 has been performing great across a lot of platforms and people have compared it against HHVM 3.7 and PHP 5.6 and undoubtedly its doing wonders.
The latest software comes with twice the performance of PHP 5.6 and it is great with resolving errors. Statistically on Laravel and WordPress, it is most successful than pre-existing projects. It has type declarations such as Bool, String, and Float and allows a developer to add an anonymous class. Just when you think this is the complete 360 degree solution, we have the spaceship operator that looks like this: < = >
The best solution for all projects and the best friend of web developers, PHP 7 is ruling the internet.
