Category: PHP

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A look at some of PHP 7.4’s new features

28th December 2019

PHP 7.4 was released on 28 November 2019 and with it comes a lot of new features. In this post we'll examine a few of the more interesting ones along with examples of how they can be used. PHP has long been the punchline in low-effort memes, and though some of the disdain for the language is justified, more recent versions have made significant improvements to PHP and this latest one is no exception. Typed properties With the introduction of typed properties, class properties now support type declarations. This means that only values of the specified type can be assigned… Continue reading »