Showing posts with label PHP 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PHP 7. Show all posts
Wednesday 22 November 2017

PHP: misuse of nullable arguments

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G'day: PHP 7.1 added nullable types to the PHP language. Here's the RFC . In short, one can specify that a return type or an argume...
Friday 2 October 2015

PHP 7: anonymous classes

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G'day: I thought it was high time I wrote an article with some code in it. Also one of my (now former ) colleagues - Cisco - asked me t...
Sunday 9 August 2015

PHP 7: specifying the context for closure to use

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G'day: Here's a cool new feature of PHP 7 that doesn't seem to have been spouted off about as much as other things like speed (...
Monday 3 August 2015

PHP: Has PHP7 implemented function return-type checking syntax poorly?

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G'day: I had a look at PHP 7's new (but very late tot he party) capability to type-check function return types the other day ("...
Thursday 30 July 2015

PHP 7: functions can now have type-checking on their return values

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G'day: This is a kind of "part 2" to the earlier article about type-checkinng on funnction arguments: " PHP 7: new featu...
Wednesday 29 July 2015

PHP 7: new feature: enhanced type-checking on function arguments

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G'day: I'm back to doing some PHP beta testing. Or more "exploration" than testing, as I'm not being very rigorous ab...
Tuesday 28 July 2015

PHP 7: PHP's error "handling" lunacy is getting on my tits

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G'day: FFS. I'm part way through an article on something completely unrelated, and needed to knock up some code to demonstrate PHP&...
Sunday 28 June 2015

PHP 7: three different ways of dealing with much the same error/exception

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G'day: My foray into how PHP "handles" erroring code continues. And continues down the same vein of "how PHP has made th...
Friday 26 June 2015

PHP: getting PHP 5 and PHP 7 running side by side on the same machine (a better way)

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G'day: When starting to test PHP 7  I decided I did not want to sacrifice PHP 5, so wanted both running together. I horsed around getti...
Thursday 25 June 2015

PHP 7: new to alpha 2... Throwables now supported

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G'day: Exception handling has kinda been improved some more in PHP 7 alpha 2. Yesterday I looked at EngineExceptions (" http://blo...

PHP 7: alpha 2 breaks EngineExceptions (on purpose, as it turns out)

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G'day: I thought I was going mad... the code I wrote for yesterday's article (" PHP 7: PHP starts to play catch-up with error-...

PHP 7: null coalescing operator

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G'day: There's not much to say on this one, but I'll go through motions anyhow. First things first, I'm dead pleased they&...
Wednesday 24 June 2015

PHP 7: IIFEs supported

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G'day: I was unaware of this feature of PHP 7 until I accidentally discovered it whilst writing my previous article (" PHP 7: Thre...

PHP 7: Three-way comparison operator (<=>)

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G'day: Here's another new feature of PHP 7, there's not much to it, but it seems to work, and is almost sensibly implemented. ...
Tuesday 23 June 2015

PHP 7: PHP starts to play catch-up with error- / exception-handling

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G'day: I'm not doing so well on the PHP 7 testing so far. CFML stuff keeps getting in the way. I did  start having a lot at one o...
Saturday 13 June 2015

PHP: getting PHP7 alpha running on Windows 8.1

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G'day: I'm mostly writing this in case anyone else has the issues I had with this. Getting PHP 7 alpha (released yesterday: " ...
Wednesday 20 May 2015

Random PHP (7) bits: improvements to generators

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G'day: I was gonna have a look at output buffering in PHP today, but my attention has been hijacked by PHP 7. So instead I'm gonna ...
Sunday 17 May 2015

Getting PHP 5.x & 7-dev running on Windows/Apache

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G'day: Yesterday evening I discovered there are runnable versions of PHP 7-dev for Windows. I'd looked around for them before, but ...