PHP 7.0.6 Released

New features

PHP 5.4.0 offers a wide range of new features:

  • Support for traits has been added.
  • Short array syntax has been added, e.g. $a = [1, 2, 3, 4]; or $a = ['one' => 1, 'two' => 2, 'three' => 3, 'four' => 4];.
  • Function array dereferencing has been added, e.g. foo()[0].
  • Closures now support $this.
  • <?= is now always available, regardless of the short_open_tag php.ini option.
  • Class member access on instantiation has been added, e.g. (new Foo)->bar().
  • Class::{expr}() syntax is now supported.
  • Binary number format has been added, e.g. 0b001001101.
  • Improved parse error messages and improved incompatible arguments warnings.
  • The session extension can now track the upload progress of files.
  • Built-in development web server in CLI mode.

User Contributed Notes

Nick Garvey
3 years ago
'callable' was implemented as a typehint in 5.4
dave1010 at gmail dot com
3 years ago
As of PHP 5.4, the CLI (using readline) no longer dies on fatal errors (for example calling undefined functions).
Anonymous
3 years ago
LDAP supports paged results.  See http://php.net/manual/en/function.ldap-control-paged-result.php for details.
Anonymous
4 years ago
The keyword 'insteadof' is introduced with PHP 5.4 http://php.net/language.oop5.traits.php
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