{"id":137516,"date":"2015-09-07T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T07:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=137516"},"modified":"2015-09-07T09:11:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T07:11:16","slug":"php-7-0-getting-closer-to-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/137516-php-7-0-getting-closer-to-release.html","title":{"rendered":"PHP 7.0 getting closer to release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PHP development team recently announced the availability of PHP 7.0.0 RC 2 &#8211; the seventh pre-release of the new PHP 7 major series. The final version is expected in October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>PHP 7.0 provides new language features, and promises users twice the performance of PHP 5 by basing it on the PHPNG project (PHP Next-Gen).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe performance gains realised from PHP 7 vary between 25% and 70% on real-world apps, and all of that just from upgrading PHP, without having to change a single line of code,\u201d said PHP developers Zend.<\/p>\n<p>PHP 7 will also allow developers to declare what kind of return type a function is expected to have \u2013 similar to argument Type Hints.<\/p>\n<p>PHP 7 also\u00a0comes with new version of the Zend Engine, with features such as consistent 64-bit support, removal of old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions, and a combined comparison Operator (&lt;=&gt;).<\/p>\n<p>The next release will be RC 3, which is set to available on 17 September.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on programming<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136148-most-popular-programming-languages-on-github-2008-to-2015.html\">Most popular programming languages on Github: 2008 to 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/132641-sa-school-kids-take-on-robot-programming-challenge.html\">SA school kids take on robot programming challenge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PHP development team has announced the availability of PHP 7.0.0 RC 2 &#8211; the seventh pre-release of the new PHP 7 major series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":137518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,12377,32682],"class_list":["post-137516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-php","tag-zend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137530,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137516\/revisions\/137530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}