23Jun/130
PHP 5.5 First Look
A short title from Lynda.com about the new features of the Php 5.5 done by Jon Peck
The title will cover :
- installing the Php 5.5 on a VirtualBox machine
- generators using the yield operator
- dereferencing
Ex:
echo "abcd"[2] ==> b
- finally keyword on the try/catch statement for cleanup operations
- password hashing using the functions password_hash , password_verify & password_get_info
- Opcache included by default, previously knows as commercial Zend Optimizer +
- usage of list in foreach statement
- check if a function return empty result using empty function and not throw an error
- normalizing a bunch of different functions like boolval , pack & unpack
- what has been removed/deprecated on the latest Php version