Chapter 2. New Features in PHP 7
PHP 7 has introduced new features that can help programmers write high-performing and effective code. Also, some old-fashioned features are completely removed, and PHP 7 will throw an error if used. Most of the fatal errors are now exceptions, so PHP won't show an ugly fatal error message any more; instead, it will go through an exception with the available details.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Type hints
- Namespaces and group use declarations
- The anonymous classes
- Old-style constructor deprecation
- The Spaceship operator
- The null coalesce operator
- Uniform variable syntax
- Miscellaneous changes
OOP features
PHP 7 introduced a few new OOP features that will enable developers to write clean and effective ...
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