Erika Heidi (Aug. 28, 2015) - Getting Ready for PHP 7

[InspectorSmith]

Erika Heidi - Getting Ready for PHP 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thEPrFH1w-Q

Youtube video uploaded on August 28, 2015 by DigitalOcean

[InspectorSmith]

Getting Ready for PHP 7

DigitalOcean
July 15, 2015
by Erika Heidi

Excerpt:

2015 has been an important year for PHP. Eleven years after its 5.0 release, a new major version is finally coming our way! PHP 7 is scheduled for release before the end of the year, bringing many new language features and an impressive performance boost.

But how will this impact your current PHP codebase? What really changed? How safe is it to update? This post will answer these questions and give you a taste of what’s to come with PHP 7.

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Read more:

https://www.digitalocean.com/company...ady-for-php-7/

[bsteadman]

With no modern-day programming training or experience, I could just barely follow the dialog, and even that with no significant understanding.

However, I was VERY IMPRESSED with the chart that shows a Wordpress 4.1 application running over twice as fast on PHP 7 as it does on the current PHP 5.6.

Sounds like this major program code update will able to be implemented by the industry, perhaps within a few months when debugging and testing of PHP7 is complete.

[InspectorSmith]

Kapil Sharma (Sept. 20, 2015) - What's new in PHP 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LkRbx_jt78