Looming PHP 7 and Its Effect on WordPress:
Php is now just on the horizon and with that the question arises that how it affect websites running on WordPress. Pho 7 is an major update to the server side scripting language which is called Php. It also going to impact on any Php powered CMS such as Joomla, Drupal & Magento.
Performance Upgrade:
Php 7 has the largest improvement in performance which gives direct response to the criticism over past performance issues on the development platform. The new release of Php 7 offers 50% increase to real world apps and also works efficiently than HHVM.
Double Speed of Earlier Installments:-
This update is approx twice faster than PHP 5.x. It execute the code quickly and needs fewer server to manage the same number of requests each second. For Example- the WordPress homepage needs 72% few instructions to execute than prior.
New & Improved Operators:
Spaceship & Null Coalescing are two operators who debut from Php 7. The former makes designers chained the comparisons more shortly while the latter is mean to check if something exists.
Function Type Hints:-
Now you are allowed to use Booleans, Floats, Integers and Strings as function type hints. In addition to this they can also declare function return type. As the result , it should prevent from passing & returning incorrect types from function.
Engine Exceptions:
Exceptions are also added to the latest release’s engine that will allow the designers take care or error handling in applications. The new engine exceptions are going to replace these errors which are the best things for designers. Now they can immediately search for fatal errors and resolve them quickly.
Continuous 64-BIT Support:-
Now it is possible to work on Php on a 64 bit operating system with assurance. This is an exceptional change because earlier version fails to support 64 bit integers or large files.
Group Use Declarations:
One of the most interesting features of Php7 is group use declarations. They regularly improve the Php namespace implementation.
Anonymous Class Support:-
The Anonymous Classes helps designers to enhance the codes and faster execution. Other languages like Java and C# also allows designers to access anonymous class in their coding.
Abstract Syntax Tree:
It is intermediary section in the compilation process of codes. AST comes with a lots of benefits such as the possibility of optimization, improved quality, and chances to access the tools like static code analyzer.
Removal of deprecated items:
In the latest release of PHP 7 a slew of deprecated features & dead server API’s extensions are removed. Here is the list of removed items:
- ASP Style tags
- Ereg & MySQL Extensions
- Php4 style constructors