There Will Be Many Features Coming For PHP 7.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: There Will Be Many Features Coming For PHP 7.1

PHP 7 was just released over one month ago but there is already much work going into PHP 7.1, the next major update to this widely-used web programming language...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PHP-7.1-Start-Of-Features

[ElectricPrism]

Upgrade on Arch was pretty smooth, only had to update php5 references to php7 in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

And of course $ apachectl configtest is your friend.

So far haven't test driven much but all my development server php 5.4.x software seems to work just fine.

[uid313]

Still no decorators/annotations.

[boxie]

Oh thank *insert being of higher power here* those Short Closures were not accepted. they look awful!

[stephen82]

@Michael: sorry mate, but short closures are not going to be included in 7.1 because the poll closed against it by 30 votes.

[RyanNerd]

The current build from source for 7.1 has these already implemented and working:

Void Return Type

function should_return_nothing(): void 
 {
   return 1; // Fatal error: A void function must not return a value
 } 

Class constant visibility modifiers

class Token 
 {
   // Constants default to public
   const PUBLIC_CONST = 0;

   // Constants then also can have a defined visibility
   private const PRIVATE_CONST = 0;
   protected const PROTECTED_CONST = 0;
   public const PUBLIC_CONST_TWO = 0;

   //Constants can only have one visibility declaration list
   private const FOO = 1, BAR = 2;
 } 

Add HTTP/2 Server Push support to ext/curl

$transfers = 1;
$callback = function($parent_ch, $pushed_ch, array $headers) use (&$transfers) 
{
  $transfers++; // increment to keep track of the number of concurrent requests
  return CURL_PUSH_OK;
};