The PHP 7.0 release thread

[wrldwzrd89]

Web developers who use PHP, is this exciting or what? 2x script performance, yay! Admittedly the other changes aren't quite as interesting. Now we'll have to get ready to nudge our hosting providers to get on the PHP 7 bandwagon if they have not already done so.

As of right now it's at RC8, the second unplanned release candidate. Judging by the list of fixed bugs, though, looks like it's a GOOD thing this RC was released. More than one segmentation fault bug was fixed.

 

[IHelpId10t5]

Crap, too many new things to learn and too little time to do so. Drupal 8 is out and now PHP 7. Thanks for the heads up. I'm looking forward to the modernization that both of these will bring. It's Christmas in November for web developers!

Now it's time to hear from the obligatory PHP haters that continue to spout off nonsense about how PHP is so insecure -- nonsense of course.

 

[960design]

Web developers who use PHP, is this exciting or what? 2x script performance, yay! Admittedly the other changes aren't quite as interesting. Now we'll have to get ready to nudge our hosting providers to get on the PHP 7 bandwagon if they have not already done so.

As of right now it's at RC8, the second unplanned release candidate. Judging by the list of fixed bugs, though, looks like it's a GOOD thing this RC was released. More than one segmentation fault bug was fixed.

Yep, spent the last couple of month double checking production code for compatibility issues. So far none found. I haven't done any extensive tests with PHP7 yet. But I'm ready!

 

[Starfia]

Yay, I'm watching too. I'm an avid amateur web developer – I'm pretty comfortable with HTML, CSS and JS (and have my favourite preprocessors for each), and while I can achieve my server-side goals with it, I've never felt like I got the hang of PHP's syntax and conventions. (The dollar sign? All those required parentheses? For some reason my brain still wrestles with it after years.)

But, anyway – I'm watching from the sidelines to see what the deal is with this, since it seems like one of the more major leaps for PHP from what little I can tell. If anyone wants to explain what they're excited about, I'm sure I'll do more reading than contributing here.

 

[rochow]

Interesting, I deal with a variety of hosts and nearly all are still running PHP5. The occasional one still runs 5.3 or 5.2. Hopefully compatibility won't be an issue, will be interesting to benchmark and see the 'real-time' difference. More speed is always welcome (though some providers may drop resources given it's faster which ends up negating them anyway. Same way huge CPU & RAM improvements have lead to sloppier programming and negated quite a bit of it).

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Based on the PHP 7.0 NEWS file, here: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-7.0/NEWS

... it looks like RC8 will be the final RC for PHP 7, and PHP 7.0.0 final will be released December 3rd. Work will continue on fixing remaining bugs, but that work will go towards a 7.0.1 update.

 

[jeremysteele]

It's about time. Been cleaning up some projects lately to get rid of deprecated code and make them easier to migrate.

One I just picked up has some awful conventions that haven't been used since PHP 4, yet the original dev felt like using them. var $bla as properties, mysql extension...... *shudder*.

 

[SmithKelvin]

They might forgot to fix the defining of a variable with $ prefix. When can we expect from them to eliminate that dreadful prefix?

 

[rochow]

I did some benchmarking and a blank WP went from .25s to 0.9 - pretty nice!

 

[wrldwzrd89]

PHP 7.0 is out now! Forgot to post this earlier. http://php.net/

 

[960design]

I did some benchmarking and a blank WP went from .25s to 0.9 - pretty nice!

Wow, really? Isn't that MUCH worse?

 

[rochow]

0.09
Shows how often I'm used to writing a PHP benchmark includes TWO zeros at the front!

 

[2457244]

Still a few days to go until MAMP 3.5 releases and I finally can test PHP 7.

Yay..

 

[wrldwzrd89]

PHP 7.0.1 / 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 have been released with bug and security fixes. Time to call PHP 7 a done deal and await PHP 7.1 - except we still have to nudge some web hosts to get on board.