PHP 7.4 to be Available

Brandon Hale

After a year of development, the release of the PHP 7.4 programming language is presented. The new branch includes a series of new features, as well as several changes that violate compatibility.

Key improvements in PHP 7.4:

  • Typed Properties
  • Arrow Functions
  • Limited Return Type Covariance and Argument Type Contravariance
  • Unpacking Inside Arrays
  • Numeric Literal Separator
  • Weak References
  • Allow Exceptions from __toString()
  • Opcache Preloading
  • Several Deprecations
  • Extensions Removed from the Core

The functions get_magic_quotes_gpc (), get_magic_quotes_runtime (), hebrevc (), convert_cyr_string (), money_format (), ezmlm_hash (),restore_include_path (), ldap_control_paged_result_response__preport (), are declared obsolete.

A warning is provided about using an outdated feature when trying to process invalid characters in the base_convert (), bindec (), octdec (), and hexdec () functions, as well as when specifying a non-string pattern in mb_ereg_replace ().

Get more information at the official website.

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