PHP had become almost a forgotten language with a lapse of more than 10 years without a new major version after PHP 5.0 in 2004. To make things worse, PHP 6.x was abandoned because of a planned addition of native Unicode support to PHP that could not be implemented. Yet, PHP is one of the most used language for Cloud development and an option available on most cloud service providers.

PHP 7.x brings several improvements and new features that touch all aspects of the language, including better support for object oriented programming, extensions to classes and interfaces, improvements to the type system, error handling, and more.

In this series of articles, we discuss the new features across the various PHP 7.x versions.

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