ADVANTAGES OF DEVELOPING YOUR WEBSITE IN PHP 7

1. ADVANTAGES OF DEVELOPING YOUR WEBSITE IN PHP 7 The latest version of PHP that is to say PHP 7 has revolutionized web designing and development altogether irrespective of its applications. Earlier versions of PHP have been helping ease out the way for developers throughout the globe and it has lived up to its name by successfully giving its users PHP 7 which is all set to enhance its popularity even further. PHP 7 was built with a deep understanding of the needs of users as well as developers. The users have become busier than ever and don’t like to spend time brooding over a page to load or respond. The developers are ever in demand for delivering the best. Let us look at the crisp new features of PHP 7. Speed: With the help of the new Zend Server 3.0, PHP 7 is able to give the applications an edge in the form of up to two time’s faster performance as compared to PHP 5.6. Memory Consumption: The memory consumption also has increased about 50% than earlier which means lesser resources and more users. Type Declarations: Earlier versions did not need the developers to declare the data types or to only specify them in the function declaration only. This ability to decide the data types on its own made PHP a weak language. But with PHP 7 we can add scalar data types. And they are int, float, string and bool. Return Types: PHP 7 also lets developers specify the data type a function returns. While it is still not mandatory, using return type is a good practice. It makes the code more readable and easy to debug. New Operators: Spaceship operator has been introduced to combine the operations or 3 different operators. < = > stands for less than, equal to and greater than altogether. Null Coalesce operator is an answer to if-set-or operator. It returns left operand if not null otherwise the right operand. Up gradation to PHP 7 is a bit tricky, but once done ensures high performance for better. Website: WEB DEVELOPMENT & WEB DESIGN