While the world was waiting for the launch of PHP 6, the PHP group did a double take and launched the PHP 7 after PHP 5.6 launch in 2014. If you are wondering while the sixth Unicode experiment was never released, why didn’t the PHP group use the same name? The reason lies in the fact that even after abandoning the experimental project, several articles and book issues used the PHP6 name and this new version of PHP with advanced feature would have created a confusion. Originally dubbed as PHP next generation (phpng), this scripting language performance has been accelerated above par.
Here are 5 reasons why you must look forward to PHP 7!
Reason 1 : Much Improved Performance
E-commerce has become has become the face of internet today and while PHP 5.6 could entertain 41 home page request per second, the figure going slightly up with HHVM 3.7 entertaining 64 request per second. It is PHP 7 that stood first in the marathon entertaining 69 home page request per second. (figures are approximations)
Reason 2 : Faster Transactions in Magento
The world believes in fast and furious and that’s exactly how PHP has been upgraded. The servers using PHP 7 can run 3x more Magento transactions on the same hardware. Not only that, there is a valuable 30% decrease in memory consumption for improved performance.
Reason 3 : WordPress
While PHP 5.6 was using approximately 100M CPU instructions to execute one WordPress request, PHP 7 makes it simpler and smoother with just 25M instructions. What’s the result? Simple, save the cost on servers as the same amount of users can be served with less servers!
Reason 4 : Extended Boundaries to 64-Bit Windows System
There is a reason for celebration for the 64-Bit windows user as both the native integers and file system will be supported. Belonging to the family of Linux, it was not so that one could not run PHP on windows. However, the previous PHP 5.X series was not developed to support 64-Bit integer or large files. This exponential change has come with PHP7 and it is definitely a well thought one!
Reason 5 : Still Not Satisfied
If the above four reasons have not been able to drive you towards PHP 7, then this last reason will definitely make you swoon. Previously, catching and handling fatal errors was not an easy task for PHP coders. With PHPNP, Engine Exceptions come into picture which allows the coders to replace the fatal error with exceptions.
As mentioned above, PHP team was aiming for a leaner, meaner machine to change the face of the web world and that has come true with PHP 7. Would you be looking forward to migrate your website or CMS to this newer version? Please Comment!
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