
If you also wish to showcase your blog here, please see GBlog for guest blog writing on GeeksforGeeks. How do you feel about PHP 7 in general? Is it heading in the right direction? Let us know!! Like all major revolutions throughout history, the PHP 7 revolution will also be spilling some blood before producing something awesome.
#Php 5.2 to 5.3.29 upgrade#
PHP 7 is the future of PHP and all the applications will need to upgrade to PHP 7 sooner or later.
#Php 5.2 to 5.3.29 code#
If anyone has functions like “ereg” and “mysql” buried deep inside their code base, they are gonna strike a Backward Compatibility wall as these functions are deprecated and, it is going to be a real pain in the behind to upgrade.A lot of extensions are not ready yet for PHP 7.While there is no major downside to it, but to just point out, here is a list of some: Deprecation of mysql_* functions: PHP 7 has deprecated all mysql_* functions, now developers have to use mysqli (the intelligent version of MySQL) instead.Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax : PHP 7 introduced syntax to escape Unicode codepoint as below : echo “\u Reverse “ // This outputs : esreveR.Null Coalesce Operator:The coalesce operator (?) returns result of its first operand if it exists, or null if it doesn’t.It can be mostly used in sorting and combined comparison.



The PHP development team released the latest version of PHP: PHP 7 claiming it to be twice as fast as its predecessor PHP 5. Since its launch in 1994 PHP has become an industry standard supporting almost 80% of the websites ( 79.8% to be precise) with its closest competitor being ASP.Net at 19.8% and others like Ruby, Java trailing far behind. PHP is a server side scripting language designed for web development by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994.
