{"id":148377,"date":"2015-12-03T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=148377"},"modified":"2015-12-03T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:14:17","slug":"php-7-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/148377-php-7-released.html","title":{"rendered":"PHP 7 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHP 7 was released recently, and\u00a0is focussed on improved speed and upgrading PHP&#8217;s core interpreter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webscripts.softpedia.com\/blog\/php-7-released-after-years-of-development-worth-the-wait-497030.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Softpedia reported<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>that\u00a0benchmarks showed PHP 7 is almost twice as fast as PHP 5.x releases.<\/p>\n<p>While improved performance is the main focus of PHP 7, there are new features which come with the latest version.<\/p>\n<p>These features include scalar type declarations, return type declarations, null coalesce operator, spaceship operator, and many more. The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/migration70.new-features.php\" target=\"_blank\">full list is available here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/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>PHP 7 is focussed on improved speed and upgrading PHP&#8217;s core interpreter.<\/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":[36,12377,34329],"class_list":["post-148377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-php","tag-php-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148377"}],"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=148377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148395,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148377\/revisions\/148395"}],"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=148377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}