PHP 5.NEXT: The New Bits
summary
PHP 5.6 adds concrete bits: a double asterisk exponent operator (echo 2*32 evaluates right‑associative to 512), constant scalar expressions for consts and class props, a __debugInfo magic for useful var_dumps, GMP now uses objects with operator overloading, and built‑in PHPDBG provides a standalone debugger. Variadic functions and argument unpack (splat) and variadics* land together. Outside core, HHVM/Hack and ReactPHP offer async servers (simple HTTP example listens on port 8080 and returns plain "hello world").
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25TPower
- 2:50Constants
- 5:50Debug Info
- 7:40GMP Improvements
- 9:50PHP Debug
- 11:40Importing namespaces
- 14:05Function Syntax
- 18:45Argument Unpacking
- 21:50What Next
- 27:45React
- 30:20Promises
- 30:40Feedback
- 32:10Performance
- 33:04PHP 6 Version
- 34:36PHP 65 Version
- 34:55PHP VN
- 36:11PHP HTML5
- 36:42PHP VM
- 37:31ZF
- 37:48Compatibility
- 39:42Facebook
- 40:59Garbage Collection
- 41:44Internal Talk
