Updating is never 100% painless, but the team behind PHP has tried its best to lower the incompatibilities and provide a good experience during the process of updating from PHP 5 to 7.
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bookmark_borderWhat is the difference between PHP 5 and PHP 7?
The Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is a very popular scripting language. It’s been a standard since 1994 due to its attractive features. Safer connectivity to the database, faster speed, runs smoothly on the most used platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux). Of course, there were many improvements, but let’s have a closer look at PHP 5 and PHP 7.
PHP 5 main features.
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bookmark_borderPHP Version 5 – everything you need to know
PHP 5
PHP 5 was released on 1 July 2004. That is 4 years after introducing PHP 4 to the scene of the Internet. The aim is to bring a lot of new functionalities to the PHP language. The focus of the team was on what is not very well supported and what is missing in the previous versions. The focus of the new PHP 5 version is on 3 major areas: Object-Oriented programming, XML, and MySQL support.
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