Download PHP 7.0.0

Version 7.0.0 of PHP has been released. PHP is a recursive acronym and stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is primarily used to create dynamic web pages on web servers, often in conjunction with database programs. The complete list of changes is up this page In short, these are the most important:

PHP 7.0.0 Released

PHP 7.0.0 comes with a new version of the Zend Engine, numerous improvements and new features such as

• Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6
• Significantly reduced memory usage
• Abstract Syntax Tree
• Consistent 64-bit support
• Improved Exception hierarchy
• Many fatal errors converted to Exceptions
• Secure random number generator
• Removed old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions
• The null coalescing operator (??)
• Return and Scalar Type Declarations
• Anonymous Classes
• Zero cost asserts